Malaria parasites form filamentous cell-to-cell connections during reproduction in the mosquito midgut

Cell Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 683-696

  Rupp, Ingrid ^a   Sologub, Ludmilla ^a   Williamson, Kim C ^b   Scheuermayer, Matthias ^a   Reininger, Luc ^c   Doerig, Christian ^c   Eksi, Saliha ^b,f   Kombila, Davy U ^d   Frank, Matthias ^e   Pradel, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

fertilization; gamete; malaria; mosquito; nanotube; Plasmodium; transmission

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; ISOPROTEIN; NANOTUBE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GERM CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALARIA; METABOLISM; MOSQUITO; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REPRODUCTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL COMMUNICATION; CULICIDAE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GERM CELLS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NANOTUBES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTISTA;

EID: 79954418313     PISSN: 10010602     EISSN: 17487838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cr.2010.176     Document Type: Article

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