Definition of "gametocyte" [gametocyte]

• A cell from which gametes develop by meiotic division, especially a spermatocyte or an oocyte. (noun)

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• "In the premier open access journal PLoS Biology, a study of children in Kenya reveals that those individuals harboring the transmissible gametocyte stage of malaria parasites are more attractive to the mosquito vectors that spread this disease."
• "When one chromosome of a pair, instead of being parallel to the other in the gametocyte, crosses it at a point of contact, then when the chromosomes separate, part of one chromosome remains connected with the part of the other on the same side and the two parts separate as"
• "Asexual and gametocyte parasite cultures were pelleted at 500 g, washed twice in 2% FCS"