Toxoplasma development - turn the switch on or off?

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 466-472

  White, Michael W ^a   Radke, Jay R ^b,c   Radke, Joshua B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASEIN KINASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

APICOMPLEXA; BIOGENESIS; BRADYZOITE; CELL CYCLE; CYST; DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST CELL; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RIBOSWITCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 84896390775     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12267     Document Type: Review

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