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n. - An immature animal or plant cell that develops by meiosis into a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes

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  • In the premier open access journal PLoS Biology, a study of children in Kenya reveals that those individuals harboring the transmissible gametocyte stage of malaria...
  • Asexual and gametocyte parasite cultures were pelleted at 500 g, washed twice in 2% FCS
  • P. falciparum, when it is in it's final stage (gametocyte), it has more of a sausage looking shape or half-moon shape.
  • Asexual parasite culture (containing mostly ring stages) (C) and gametocyte culture (D) were analyzed by flow cytometry.
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