Transmission stage investment of malaria parasites in response to in-host competition

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1625, 2007, Pages 2629-2638

  Wargo, Andrew R ^a,b   De Roode, Jacobus C ^a,c   Huijben, Silvie ^a   Drew, Damien R ^a   Read, Andrew F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN FISHERIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gametocyte; Life history; Phenotypic plasticity; Quantitative RT PCR; Transmission; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALARIA; PARASITE; PROTOZOAN; RODENT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GAMETOCYTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFESPAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MUS; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI;

EID: 34848838009     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0873     Document Type: Article

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