Stress, drugs and the evolution of reproductive restraint in malaria parasites

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1697, 2010, Pages 3123-3129

  Reece, Sarah E ^a   Ali, Eltayeb ^b,c   Schneider, Petra ^a   Babiker, Hamza A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SUDAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION   (Sudan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^d SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Anti malarial drug resistance; Gametocyte conversion; Life history trade offs; Plasmodium falciparum; Reproductive effort; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TREATMENT; DRUG RESISTANCE; GROWTH RATE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MALARIA; PROTOZOAN; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956896582     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0564     Document Type: Conference Paper

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