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Eukaryotic Cell, January 2009, p. 128-132, Vol. 8, No. 1
1535-9778/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/EC.00267-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Apicoplast and Mitochondrion in Gametocytogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Noriko Okamoto,{ddagger} Timothy P. Spurck, Christopher D. Goodman, and Geoffrey I. McFadden*

Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia

Received 6 August 2008/ Accepted 29 October 2008

Live cell imaging of human malaria parasites Plasmodium falciparum during gametocytogenesis revealed that the apicoplast does not grow, whereas the mitochondrion undergoes remarkable morphological development. A close connection of the two organelles is consistently maintained. The apicoplast and mitochondrion are not components of the male gametes, suggesting maternal inheritance.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia. Phone: 61-414-189-905. Fax: 61-3-9347-1071. E-mail: gim{at}unimelb.edu.au

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 7 November 2008.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://ec.asm.org/.

{ddagger} Present address: Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.

Eukaryotic Cell, January 2009, p. 128-132, Vol. 8, No. 1
1535-9778/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/EC.00267-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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