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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cell from which gametes develop by meiotic division, especially a spermatocyte or an oocyte.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gamete.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) An immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis.

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  • noun cytology A diploid germ cell that divides by meiosis into a gamete.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis

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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.

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  • 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

    Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897

  • (A) Asexual growth and gametocyte production were measured in 3D7HT and 3D7HT-GFP, means of three independent experiments are plotted.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arthur M. Talman et al. 2010

  • Asexual parasite culture (containing mostly ring stages) (C) and gametocyte culture (D) were analyzed by flow cytometry.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arthur M. Talman et al. 2010

  • (A) Asexual growth and gametocyte production were measured in 3D7HT and 3D7HT-GFP, means of three independent experiments are plotted.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arthur M. Talman et al. 2010

  • Asexual parasite culture (containing mostly ring stages) (C) and gametocyte culture (D) were analyzed by flow cytometry.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arthur M. Talman et al. 2010

  • Asexual and gametocyte parasite cultures were pelleted at 500 g, washed twice in 2% FCS

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arthur M. Talman et al. 2010

  • Asexual and gametocyte parasite cultures were pelleted at 500 g, washed twice in 2% FCS

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arthur M. Talman et al. 2010

  • [5] In P. ovale's final stage where it is a gametocyte, it has a roundish to oval shape that is compact.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • P. falciparum, when it is in it's final stage (gametocyte), it has more of a sausage looking shape or half-moon shape.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

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