Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A cell from which gametes develop by meiotic division, especially a spermatocyte or an oocyte.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A gamete.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Biol.) An immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis
Examples
“In the premier open access journal PLoS Biology, a study of children in Kenya reveals that those individuals harboring the transmissible gametocyte stage of malaria parasites are more attractive to the mosquito vectors that spread this disease.”
“When one chromosome of a pair, instead of being parallel to the other in the gametocyte, crosses it at a point of contact, then when the chromosomes separate, part of one chromosome remains connected with the part of the other on the same side and the two parts separate as”
“Asexual and gametocyte parasite cultures were pelleted at 500 g, washed twice in 2% FCS”
“(A) Asexual growth and gametocyte production were measured in 3D7HT and 3D7HT-GFP, means of three independent experiments are plotted.”
“Asexual parasite culture (containing mostly ring stages) (C) and gametocyte culture (D) were analyzed by flow cytometry.”
“[5] In P. ovale's final stage where it is a gametocyte, it has a roundish to oval shape that is compact.”
“P. falciparum, when it is in it's final stage (gametocyte), it has more of a sausage looking shape or half-moon shape.”
“[4] In P. ovale's final stage where it is a gametocyte, it has a roundish to oval shape that is compact.”
“Glurp is unusual because it is expressed in a number of stages exposed to the human immune response including on the sporozoite, liver schizont, merozoite and gametocyte”
“P. falciparum vaccine antigens, including the pre-erythrocytic antigens csp, trap, lsa1 and glurp; the merozoite antigens eba175, ama1, msp's 1, 3 and 4, and the gametocyte antigen pfs48/45.”
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