Unexpected plasticity in the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei
African trypanosomes cause sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle. These unicellular parasites are transmitted by the bloodsucking tsetse fly. In the mammalian host’s circulation, proliferating slender stage cells differentiate into cell cycle-arrested stumpy stage cells when they reach hi...
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2021-08-01
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| Online Zugang: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/66028 |