Synchronized Plasmodium yoelii yoelii: pattern of gametocyte production, sequestration and infectivity.
The chronobiology of the gametocytes of P. yoelii was studied in Percoll-glucose synchronized infection in the mouse. The gametocyte developmental cycle consisted of 4 successive stages: stage 0 maturation took 27 hours from merozoite invasion, stage 0 to stage 1 lasted 6 hours, stage I to stage II and stage II to stage III lasted 3 hours each. Stage 0 gametocytes were found to sequester in small peripheral capillaries, and the number of oocysts in mosquitoes was related to the number of stage 0 gametocytes ingested.
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Laboratoire de Biologie Parasitaire et de Chimiothérapie, CNRS (ERS 156), Paris, France.
Miltgen
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Chabaud
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D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D008288:Malaria / Q000469:parasitology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D010967:Plasmodium yoelii / Q000166:cytology / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology; D013997:Time Factors