Gametocytogenesis in malaria parasite: Commitment, development and regulation

Future Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1351-1369

  Liu, Zhenyu ^a   Miao, Jun ^a   Cui, Liwang ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commitment; Gametocyte; Gene expression; Malaria; Sexual development; Transcriptional regulation; Translational repression

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

CELL METABOLISM; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALARIA; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; PLASMODIUM;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 81255154203     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.11.108     Document Type: Review

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