Plasmodium yoelii vitamin B5 pantothenate transporter candidate is essential for parasite transmission to the mosquito

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hart, Robert J ^a   Lawres, Lauren ^a   Fritzen, Emma ^a   Mamoun, Choukri Ben ^b   Aly, Ahmed S I ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRANSPORTER; PANTOTHENATE TRANSPORTER; PANTOTHENIC ACID; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALARIA; METABOLISM; MOSQUITO; OOCYST; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM YOELII; SPOROZOITE; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CULICIDAE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALARIA; OOCYSTS; PANTOTHENIC ACID; PARASITES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPOROZOITES; SYMPORTERS;

EID: 84904358183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05665     Document Type: Article

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