Sex and death: The effects of innate immune factors on the sexual reproduction of malaria parasites

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Ramiro, Ricardo S ^a   Alpedrinha, João ^b,c   Carter, Lucy ^a   Gardner, Andy ^c,d   Reece, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^d BALLIOL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GAMETE; GAMETOCYTE; GAMETOGENESIS; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALARIA; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GAMETOGENESIS; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALARIA; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REPRODUCTION; SEX FACTORS; SEX RATIO; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 79953277575     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001309     Document Type: Article

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