Sex: How malaria parasites get turned on

Current Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Ankarklev, Johan ^a   Brancucci, Nicolas M B ^a   Goldowitz, Ilana ^a   Mantel, Pierre Yves ^a   Marti, Matthias ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELLS; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITES; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899843160     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.046     Document Type: Short Survey

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