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Functional genomics has helped to identify global regulators of sexual differentiation in the malaria parasite.
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Rita Gomes, A., Talman, A. Commitment issues in Plasmodium. Nat Rev Microbiol 14, 4 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro.2015.9
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