Apicoplast and mitochondrion in gametocytogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 128-132

  Okamoto, Noriko ^a,b   Spurck, Timothy P ^a   Goodman, Christopher D ^a   McFadden, Geoffrey I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENETICS; GERM CELL; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTID; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTIDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 58149333420     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00267-08     Document Type: Article

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