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SUBMITTER: Ikadai H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3645567 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ikadai Hiromi H Shaw Saliba Kathryn K Kanzok Stefan M SM McLean Kyle J KJ Tanaka Takeshi Q TQ Cao Jun J Williamson Kim C KC Jacobs-Lorena Marcelo M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130409 18
Gametocytes are essential for Plasmodium transmission, but little is known about the mechanisms that lead to their formation. Using piggyBac transposon-mediated insertional mutagenesis, we screened for parasites that no longer form mature gametocytes, which led to the isolation of 29 clones (insertional gametocyte-deficient mutants) that fail to form mature gametocytes. Additional analysis revealed 16 genes putatively responsible for the loss of gametocytogenesis, none of which has been previous ...[more]