Timing of host feeding drives rhythms in parasite replication
K. F. Prior, D. R. van der Veen, A. J. O'Donnell, K. Cumnock, D. Schneider, A. Pain, A. Subudhi, A. Ramaprasad, S. S. Rund, N. J. Savill, S. E. Reece
This study shows that host feeding rhythms, not central circadian clocks, drive parasite replication timing in malaria, with parasite rhythms aligning to host glucose rhythms and not immune system rhythms.
bioRxiv · Dec 6, 2017Microbiology