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Mastering Toxoplasma sex and sleep

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Two studies now identify bradyzoite-formation deficient 1 and microrchidia as ‘master regulators’ of the transcriptional events that control developmental life cycle transitions in the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii.

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Fig. 1: Master regulators modulating sleep and sex during the life cycle of T. gondii parasites.

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