Changes in the transcriptome of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum during the initial phase of transmission from the human to the mosquito

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ngwa, Che Julius ^a   Scheuermayer, Matthias ^a   Mair, Gunnar Rudolf ^b   Kern, Selina ^a   Brügl, Thomas ^a   Wirth, Christine Clara ^a,c   Aminake, Makoah Nigel ^a,c   Wiesner, Jochen ^d   Fischer, Rainer ^c,d   Vilcinskas, Andreas ^d,e   Pradel, Gabriele ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gametocyte; Gametogenesis; Malaria; Mosquito; Plasmodium falciparum; Transcriptome; Transmission

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOSKELETON; GAMETOCYTE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MIDGUT; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN HOMEOSTASIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSION SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION;

ANIMALS; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

HEXAPODA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84876143890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-256     Document Type: Article

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