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Commitment to sexual differentiation in the human malaria parasite, <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i>
1 Aug 2000
Abstract excerpt
The differentiation of the two sexes in the gametocytogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum was investigated using a plaque assay and antibodies specific for various stages and sexes of gametocytes. Immunofluorescence assays on plaques of cultured parasites grown in monolayers of erythrocytes revealed that the merozoites released from a single sexually-committed schizont became either all male or all female...
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