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Nature 429, 253 (20 May 2004) | doi:10.1038/429253a

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Malaria:  The calcium connection

Amanda Tromans

One of the most visually striking events in the life cycle of the malaria parasite is exflagellation — the process by which the male reproductive cells emerge, complete with propellers, from a precursor cell. As they describe in Cell (117, 503–514; 2004), Oliver Billker and colleagues have pinned down the initial steps in the underlying cascade of molecular events.

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