Molecular approaches to malaria / edited by Irwin W. Sherman. - Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2005. - xviii, 542 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The life of plasmodium: an overview / I.W. Sherman -- Plasmo DB / D. Roos -- Making a home for plasmodium post-genomics: ultrastructural organization of the blood stages / L. Bannister, G. Margos and J. Hopkins -- Genetic manipulation of plasmodium falciparum / A. Cowman and B. Crabb -- The transcriptome of the malaria parasite, plasmodium falciparum / K. Le Roch and E. Winzeler -- The plasmodium proteome / J. Johnson and J. Yates -- Evolutionary history and population genetics of human malaria parasites / M. Zilversmit and D. Hartl -- Merozoite / J. Barnwell and M. Galinski -- Ookinete / J. Vinetz -- The sporozoite / R. Sinden and K. Matuschewski -- Gametocytes and gametes / P. Alano and O. Billker -- Molecular approaches to malaria: glycolysis in asexual stage parasites / B. Woodrow and S. Krishna -- The mitochondrion / A. Vaidya -- Trafficking and the TVN / K. Haldar ... [et al.] -- The apicoplast / S. Ralph -- Protein kinases regulating plasmoidum proliferation and development / C. Doerig -- Proteases and hemoglobin degradation / P. Rosenthal -- Plasmodium lipids: metabolism and function / H. Vial and C. Ben Mamoun -- Plasmodium ribosomes and opportunities for drug intervention / T. McCutchan and I. Sharma -- Oxidative stress and antioxidant defence in malaria parasites / K. Becker, S. Koncarevic, and N. Hunt -- New permeation pathways / S. Thomas and S. Egée -- Molecular aspects of antigenic variation in plasmodium falciparum / P. Horrocks ... [et al.] -- Mechanisms of drug action and resistance / A. Uhlemann, Y. Yuthavong and D.A. Fidock -- Human genetic determinants of resistance to malaria / B.P. Kwiatkowski and G. Luoni -- Progress in development of a vaccine to aid malaria control / S. Moorthy and F. Dubovsky -- The anopheles gambiae genome / H. Collins and C.A. Hill -- The transcriptome of human malaria vectors / O. Marinotti and A.A. James.

9781555813307 (alk. paper) 1555813305

2005010990


Malaria--Molecular aspects.
Malaria--genetics.
Malaria--therapy.
Molecular Biology.
Plasmodium--genetics.

QR201.M3 / M647 2005

616.9/362

WC 750 / M7178 2005