CONTENTS
Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The life of Plasmodium: an overview.
I.W. Sherman
Chapter 2: Plasmo DB.
D. Roos
Chapter 3: Making a Home for Plasmodium Post-Genomics: Ultrastructural Organization of the Blood Stages.
L. Bannister, G. Margos and J. Hopkins
Chapter 4: Genetic Manipulation of Plasmodium falciparum.
A. Cowman and B. Crabb
Chapter 5: The Transcriptome of the Malaria Parasite, Plasmodium falciparum
K. Le Roch and E. Winzeler
Chapter 6: The Plasmodium Proteome
J. Johnson and J. Yates
Chapter 7: Evolutionary History and Population Genetics of Human Malaria Parasites.
M. Zilversmit and D. Hartl
Invasion and gamete formation
Chapter 8: Merozoite
J. Barnwell and M. Galinski
Chapter 9: Ookinete
J. Vinetz
Chapter 10: The Sporozoite
R. Sinden and K. Matuschewski
Chapter 11: Gametocytes and Gametes
P. Alano and O. Billker
Growth and Metabolism
Chapter 12: Molecular Approaches to Malaria: Glycolysis in Asexual Stage Parasites
B. Woodrow and S. Krishna
Chapter 13: The Mitochondrion
A. Vaidya
Chapter 14: Trafficking and the TVN
K. Haldar, N. Mohandas, S. Bhattacharjee, T. Harrison, N. L. Hiller, K. Liolios, S. Murphy, P. Tamez and C. van Ooij
Chapter 15: The Apicoplast
S. Ralph
Chapter 16: Protein Kinases Regulating Plasmoidum Proliferation and Development
C. Doerig
Chapter 17: Proteases and Hemoglobin Degradation
P. Rosenthal
Chapter 18: Plasmodium Lipids: Metabolism and Function
H. Vial and C. Ben Mamoun
Chapter 19: Plasmodium Ribosomes and Opportunities for Drug Intervention
T. McCutchan and I. Sharma
Chapter 20: Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defence in Malaria Parasites
K. Becker, S. Koncarevic, and N. Hunt
Chapter 21: New Permeation Pathways
S. Thomas and S. Egée
Immune evasion
Chapter 22: Molecular Aspects of Antigenic Variation in Plasmodium falciparum
P. Horrocks, S. A. Kyes, P. C. Bull and K. W. Deitsch
Chapter 23: Rosetting
Rowe
Protection
Chapter 24: Mechanisms of Drug Action and Resistance
A. Uhlemann, Y. Yuthavong and D. A. Fidock
Chapter 25: Human Genetic Determinants of Resistance to Malaria
B. P. Kwiatkowski and G. Luoni
Chapter 26: Progress in Development of a Vaccine to Aid Malaria Control
V. S. Moorthy and F. Dubovsky
Vector
Chapter 27: The Anopheles gambiae Genome
D. H. Collins, and C. A. Hill
Chapter 28: The Transcriptome of Human Malaria Vectors
O. Marinotti and A. A. James
Index