Term Information

Accession
GO:0140384
Name
metacyclogenesis
Ontology
biological_process
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Definition
The morphological, biochemical and genetic changes that induce the differentiation of non-pathogenic parasites into pathogenic metacyclic parasites in the Trypanosomatidae species. The pathogenic parasites are known as metacyclic trypomastigotes in Trypanosoma and metacyclic promastigotes in Leishmania. Source: PMID:29409544, PMID:12152483, PMID:2659372, PMID:21514274, PMID:29091711
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History
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Parents of metacyclogenesis (GO:0140384)
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metacyclogenesis [is_a relation] is_a  development of symbiont in host (GO:0044114)

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