Hookworm larval infectivity, arrest and amphiparatenesis: the Caenorhabditis elegans Daf-c paradigm.
Arrested development dramatically alters the life history of some species of soil-transmitted nematodes and elicits profound variations in the epidemiology of the infections they cause. Here, Peter Hotez, John Hawdon and Gerhard Schad show how an understanding of the cellular and molecular bases of arrested development may lead to new approaches for the control of ancylostomiasis and related infections.
Hotez
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Medical Helminthology Laboratory (LEPH), Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Hawdon
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Schad
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