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Sensing when it's time for sex

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Malaria parasites switch between developmental stages to facilitate their transmission to the mosquito vector. This switch seems to be initiated by parasite-to-parasite communication through membrane-bound vesicles.

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Figure 1: Release of vesicles from red blood cells.

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  1. Leann Tilley and Malcolm McConville are in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.,

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  2. Leann Tilley is also at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville.,

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