Plasticity in parasite phenotypes: Evolutionary and ecological implications for disease

Future Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-24

  Mideo, Nicole ^a   Reece, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

evolutionary medicine; infectiousness; malaria; phenotype; plasmodium; plasticity; replication; trait; transmission; virulence

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ; MELATONIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG TOLERANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ERYTHROCYTE; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GAMETOCYTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVESTOCK; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITOSIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PARASITES; PARASITIC DISEASES; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84555197119     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.11.134     Document Type: Article

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