Diploid stage in the life cycle of Plasmodium . After fertilization of the macrogamete in the gut of the mosquito, the resultant zygote quickly elongates (Kinete, Fig. 3) and becomes a motile ookinete, which penetrates the peritrophic membrane in the mosquito’s gut, migrates through the cytoplasm of a gut cell, and begins its transformation into an oocyst.
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(2016). Ookinete. In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43978-4_2219
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