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Science 4 August 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5787, pp. 626 - 627
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131299
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Timing the Sexual Development of Parasites

Stephen L. Hajduk

Like other eukaryotes, the malaria parasite stores maternal RNA in the female gamete for later use in directing early development. An RNA helicase is a key regulator of this process.

The author is at the Josephine Bay Paul Center, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA. E-mail: shajduk{at}mbl.edu

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