Richard J. Wheeler

Ultrastructural dynamics of basal bodies during microgamete formation and fertilisation in Plasmodium

Cilia and flagella are microtubule-based organelles found in a wide range of eukaryotic organisms that form cilia and flagella are assembled from basal bodies. In the malaria parasite, eight flagellated microgametes are assembled from 8 basal bodies that form de novo as a single group (not next to a parent basal body)...