Characterization of sexual commitment and the early steps of sexual development in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum 

Llorà Batlle, Oriol (Date of defense: 2019-12-19)

Transmission of malaria requires that some parasites abandon asexual replication and develop into sexual stages termed gametocytes. The discovery of the transcription factor PfAP2-G as the master regulator of sexual ...