gametocytes

Meanwhile, some of them transform into what are called gametocytes, and these are the form of the parasite that then comes out into the bloodstream and waits for another mosquito to come along and bite that infect person and carry and then they do another cycle of reproduction inside the mosquito and then go on to the next victim of the mosquito.

Malaria: The 500,000-Year-Old 'Fever' That Won't Die 2010

When certain forms of blood stage parasites, called "gametocytes" are picked up by a female Anopheles mosquito during a blood meal, they start another, different cycle of growth and multiplication in the mosquito.

Malaria 2008

(BTW, if life begins at conception, that is the fusion of the male and female gametocytes, is it permissible to prevent pregnancy by means of an IUD, which interferes with implantation?)

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities 2010

BTW, if life begins at conception, that is the fusion of the male and female gametocytes, is it permissible to prevent pregnancy by means of an IUD, which interferes with implantation?

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities 2010

But meanwhile, the parasite has already, you know, doubled, tripled, has you know, its numbers have become huge inside the body, and they're already creating these gametocytes that get picked up by other mosquitoes.

Malaria: The 500,000-Year-Old 'Fever' That Won't Die 2010

Even if the resistant mutant does survive the initial drug treatment and multiplies, the chance that this will result in sufficient gametocytes for transmission is reduced as a result of both asexual-stage immunity (which reduces the multiplication rate and lowers the density at which the infection is controlled) and specific antigametocyte (transmission-blocking) immunity.

Behe Responds 2007

Malaria renders mice susceptible to mosquito feeding when gametocytes are most infective.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Malaria renders mice susceptible to mosquito feeding when gametocytes are most infective.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Malaria renders mice susceptible to mosquito feeding when gametocytes are most infective.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

We can only suppose that the final development of the sperms is the result of the presence of the single X chromosome in the successive generations of male gametocytes before the reduction divisions.

Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897