Rodent malaria parasites Plasmodium chabaudi and P. vinckei do not increase their rates of gametocytogenesis in response to mosquito probing

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1579, 2005, Pages 2397-2402

  Shutler, Dave ^a   Reece, Sarah E ^b,c   Mullie, Adele ^a   Billingsley, Peter F ^d   Read, Andrew F ^b  

^a ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Gametocytogenesis; Mosquito feeding; Plasmodium chabaudi; Plasmodium vinckei; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

MALARIA; PARASITE;

ANEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; GAMETOGENESIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM VINCKEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM VINCKEI; RODENTIA;

EID: 27644582811     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3232     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Billingsley, P. F., Snook, L. S. & Johnston, V. J. 2005 Malaria parasite growth is stimulated by mosquito probing. Biol. Lett. 1, 185-189. (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2004.0260.)
2. Buckling, A. G. J., Taylor, L. H., Carlton, J. M. & Read, A. F. 1997 Adaptive changes in Plasmodium transmission strategies following chloroquine chemotherapy. Proc. R. Soc. B 264, 553-559. (doi:10.1098/rspb.1997.0079.)
3. Buckling, A. G. J., Crooks, L. & Read, A. 1999a Plasmodium chabaudi: effect of antimalarial drugs on gametocytogenesis. Exp. Parasitol. 93, 45-54. (doi:10.1006/expr.1999. 4429.)
4. Buckling, A. G. J., Ranford-Cartwright, L., Miles, A. & Read, A. F. 1999b Chloroquine increases Plasmodium falciparum gametocytogenesis in vitro. Parasitology 118, 339-346. (doi:10.1017/S0031182099003960.)
5. Bull, J. J., Molineux, I. J. & Rice, W. R. 1991 Selection of benevolence in a host-parasite system. Evolution 48, 875-882.
6. Carter, R. & Graves, P. M. 1988 Gametocytes. In Malaria: principles and practice of malariology (ed. W. H. Wernsdorfer & I. McGregor), pp. 253-305. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
7. Carter, R. & Walliker, D. 1975 New observations on the malaria parasites of rodents of the Central African Republic-Plasmodium vinkeii petteri subsp. nov. and Plasmodium chabaudi, Landau 1965. Ann. Trop. Med. Parasitol. 69, 187-196.
8. Crooks, L. 2004 Gametocyte investment in malaria. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, p. 225.
9. Dyer, M. & Day, K. P. 2000 Commitment to gametocytogenesis in Plasmodium falciparum. Parasitol. Today 16, 102-107. (doi:10.1016/80169-4758(99) 01608-7.)
10. Gardner, A., Reece, S. E. & West, S. A. 2003 Even more extreme fertility insurance and the sex ratios of protozoan blood parasites. J. Theor. Biol. 223, 515-521. (doi:10. 1016/S0022-5193(03)00142-5.)
11. Gautret, P., Miltgen, F., Gantier, J. C., Chabaud, A. G. & Landau, I. 1996 Enhanced gametocyte formation by Plasmodium chabaudi in immature erythrocytes: patterns of production and infectivity to mosquitoes. J. Parasitol. 82, 900-906.
12. Gautret, P., Coquelin, F., Chabaud, A. G. & Landau, I. 1997 The production of gametocytes by rodent Plasmodium species in mice during phenylhydrazine induced reticulocytosis. Acta Parasitol. 42, 65-67.
13. Hamilton, W. D. 1967 Extraordinary sex ratios. Science 156, 477-488.
14. Jones, L. D., Matthewson, M. & Nuttall, P. A. 1992 Saliva-activated transmission (SAT) of Thogoto virus: dynamics of SAT factor activity in the salivary glands of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, Amblyomma variegatum, and Boophilus microplus ticks. Exp. Appl. Acarol. 13, 241-248. (doi:10. 1007/BF01195081.)
15. Limesand, K. H., Higgs, S., Pearson, L. D. & Beaty, B. J. 2000 Potentiation of vesicular stomatitis New Jersey virus infection in mice by mosquito saliva. Parasite Immunol. 22, 461-467. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-3024.2000. 00326.x.)
16. Moore, J. 2001. Parasites and behaviour of animals. Oxford series in ecology and evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
17. Nassir, E., Abdel-Muhsin, A., Suliaman, S., Kenyon, F., Kheir, A., Geha, H., Ferguson, H. M., Walliker, D. & Babiker, H. 2005 Impact of genetic complexity on longevity and gametocytogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum during the dry and transmission-free season of eastern Sudan. Int. J. Parasitol. 35, 49-35. (doi:10.1016/j.ijpara. 2004.10.014.)
18. Paul, R. E. L., Coulson, T. N., Raibaud, A. & Brey, P. T. 2000 Sex determination in malaria parasites. Science 287, 128-131. (doi:10.1126/science. 287.5450.128.)
19. Paul, R. E. L., Diallo, M. & Brey, P. T. 2004 Mosquitoes and transmission of malaria parasites-not just vectors. Malaria J. 3, 39. (doi:10.1186/1475-2875-3-39.)
20. Read, A. F., Narara, A., Nee, S., Keymer, A. E. & Day, K. P. 1992 Gametocyte sex ratios as indirect measures of outcrossing rate in malaria. Parasitology 104, 387-395.
21. Read, A. F., Anwar, M., Shutler, D. & Nee, S. 1995 Sex allocation and population structure in malaria and related parasitic protozoa. Proc. R. Soc. B 260, 359-363.
22. Reece, S. E., Duncan, A. B., West, S. A. & Read, A. F. 2003 Sex ratios in the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium chabaudi. Parasitology 127, 1-7. (doi:10.1017/S0031182003004013.)
23. Reece, S. E., Duncan, A. B., West, S. A. & Read, A. F. 2005 Host cell preference and variable transmission strategies in malaria parasites. Proc. R. Soc. B 272, 511-517. (doi:10. 1098/rspb.2004.2972.)
24. SAS Institute. 2002 SAS Institute Inc, Cary North Carolina, USA.
25. Talman, A. M., Domarle, O., McKenzie, F. E., Ariey, F. & Robert, V. 2004 Gametocytogenesis: the puberty of Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria J. 3, 24. (doi:10.1186/1475-2875-3-24.)
26. Titus, R. G. & Ribeiro, J. M. C. 1988 Salivary gland lysates from the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis enhance Leishmania infectivity. Science 239, 1306-1308.
27. Trager, W. & Gill, G. S. 1992 Enhanced gametocyte formation in young erythrocytes by Plasmodium falciparum in vitro. J. Protozool. 39, 429-432.
28. West, S. A., Reece, S. E. & Read, A. F. 2001 Evolution of gametocyte sex ratios in malaria and related apicomplexan (protozoan) parasites. Trends Parasitol. 17, 525-531. (doi:10.1016/S1471-4922(01)02058-X.)
29. West, S. A., Smith, T. G., Nee, S. & Read, A. F. 2002 Fertility insurance and the sex ratios of malaria and related haemospororin blood parasites. J. Parasitol. 88, 258-263.