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 parasites are more attractive to the mosquito vectors that spread this disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Internet legal stuff] Reference

Asexual and gametocyte parasite cultures were pelleted at 500 g, washed twice in 2% FCS.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

P. falciparum, when it is in it's final stage (gametocyte), it has more of a sausage looking shape or half-moon shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Asexual parasite culture (containing mostly ring stages) (C) and gametocyte culture (D) were analyzed by flow cytometry.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

(A) Asexual growth and gametocyte production were measured in 3D7HT and 3D7HT-GFP, means of three independent experiments are plotted.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Glurp is unusual because it is expressed in a number of stages exposed to the human immune response including on the sporozoite, liver schizont, merozoite and gametocyte.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

P. falciparum vaccine antigens, including the pre-erythrocytic antigens csp, trap, lsa1 and glurp; the merozoite antigens eba175, ama1, msp's 1, 3 and 4, and the gametocyte antigen pfs48/45.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

(gametocyte), it has more of a sausage looking shape or half-moon shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

(A) liver stage trophozoites in a primary human hepatocyte (B) blood ring stage, (C) trophozoites, (D) schizont, (E) male gametocyte, (F) female gametocyte, (G) ookinete obtained 29 hours post-feed in infected.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Asexual growth rate and gametocyte production in the two strains were indistinguishable (.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Trophozoites (ring forms) and female gametocyte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference