Gamete interruptus; a novel calcium-dependent kinase is essential for malaria sexual reproduction |
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| Authors: | Vernick Kenneth D |
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| Affiliation: | Center for Microbial and Plant Genomics and Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, 1500 Gortner Avenue, St Paul, MN 55108, USA. |
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| Abstract: | Malaria parasites undergo sexual fertilization minutes after the bloodmeal enters the mosquito midgut. In this issue of Cell, Billker et al. (2004) describe a new Plasmodium calcium-dependent protein kinase essential for gamete formation, and show that it is required for parasite transmission. |
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