Revisiting the initial steps of sexual development in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Comparative Heterochromatin Profiling Reveals Conserved and Unique Epigenome Signatures Linked to Adaptation and Development of Malaria Parasites

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GDV1 induces sexual commitment of malaria parasites by antagonizing HP1-dependent gene silencing

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Inducible developmental reprogramming redefines commitment to sexual development in the malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei

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Capturing in vivo RNA transcriptional dynamics from the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

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Expression of the Plasmodium falciparum Clonally Variant clag3 Genes in Human Infections

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Generating conditional gene knockouts in Plasmodium – a toolkit to produce stable DiCre recombinase-expressing parasite lines using CRISPR/Cas9

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Malaria Epigenetics

(2017) Alfred Cortés et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Developing transmission-blocking strategies for malaria control

(2017) Robert E. Sinden   PLoS Pathogens

Routine in vitro culture of P. falciparum gametocytes to evaluate novel transmission-blocking interventions

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New Assays to Characterise Growth-Related Phenotypes of Plasmodium falciparum Reveal Variation in Density-Dependent Growth Inhibition between Parasite Lines

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Biology of Malaria Transmission

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Epigenetic Roulette in Blood Stream Plasmodium: Gambling on Sex

(2016) Andrew P. Waters   PLoS Pathogens

UDP-galactose and acetyl-CoA transporters as Plasmodium multidrug resistance genes

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Specific expression and export of the Plasmodium falciparum Gametocyte EXported Protein-5 marks the gametocyte ring stage

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An assay to probe Plasmodium falciparum growth, transmission stage formation and early gametocyte development

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Sexual development in Plasmodium parasites: knowing when it's time to commit

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Global transcriptional repression: An initial and essential step forPlasmodiumsexual development

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Heterochromatin Protein 1 Secures Survival and Transmission of Malaria Parasites

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A Plasmodium falciparum Histone Deacetylase Regulates Antigenic Variation and Gametocyte Conversion

(2014) Bradley I. Coleman et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

A fast, non-invasive, quantitative staining protocol provides insights in Plasmodium falciparum gamete egress and in the role of osmiophilic bodies

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A cascade of DNA-binding proteins for sexual commitment and development in Plasmodium

(2014) Abhinav Sinha et al.   NATURE

A transcriptional switch underlies commitment to sexual development in malaria parasites

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Genome editing in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum using the CRISPR-Cas9 system

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Male and Female Plasmodium falciparum Mature Gametocytes Show Different Responses to Antimalarial Drugs

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Molecular evidence for the localization of Plasmodium falciparum immature gametocytes in bone marrow

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Plasmodium falciparum Gametocyte Development 1 (Pfgdv1) and Gametocytogenesis Early Gene Identification and Commitment to Sexual Development

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Epidemiology and Infectivity of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax Gametocytes in Relation to Malaria Control and Elimination

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Heterochromatin formation in bistable chromatin domains controls the epigenetic repression of clonally variant Plasmodium falciparum genes linked to erythrocyte invasion

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A Research Agenda to Underpin Malaria Eradication

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Protein Export Marks the Early Phase of Gametocytogenesis of the Human Malaria ParasitePlasmodium falciparum

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New insights into the blood-stage transcriptome ofPlasmodium falciparumusing RNA-Seq

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Identification and Genome-Wide Prediction of DNA Binding Specificities for the ApiAP2 Family of Regulators from the Malaria Parasite

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Genome-wide Analysis of Heterochromatin Associates Clonally Variant Gene Regulation with Perinuclear Repressive Centers in Malaria Parasites

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Plasmodium falciparum Heterochromatin Protein 1 Marks Genomic Loci Linked to Phenotypic Variation of Exported Virulence Factors

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Sex in Plasmodium: a sign of commitment

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