How a malaria parasite becomes a male

Elisabet Tintó-Font and Alfred Cortés ()

Nature, 2022, vol. 612, issue 7940, 408-409

Abstract: Organisms use various strategies for sex determination. The non-genetic mechanism in the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum, involving a male-specific factor, has now been revealed.

Keywords: Malaria; Microbiology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1038/d41586-022-04167-5

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