Functional genomics in sand fly-derived Leishmania promastigotes.

• Main Authors: Pedro J Alcolea (Author), Ana Alonso (Author), Ricardo Molina (Author), Maribel Jiménez (Author), Peter J Myler (Author), Vicente Larraga (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Leishmania development in the sand fly gut leads to highly infective forms called metacyclic promastigotes. This process can be routinely mimicked in culture. Gene expression-profiling studies by transcriptome analysis have been performed with the aim of studying proma...