Complex nutrient channel phenotypes despite Mendelian inheritance in a Plasmodium falciparum genetic cross.
Malaria parasites activate a broad-selectivity ion channel on their host erythrocyte membrane to obtain essential nutrients from the bloodstream.This conserved channel, known as the plasmodial surface Adapters anion channel (PSAC), has been linked to parasite clag3 genes in P.falciparum, but epigenetic switching between the two copies of this gene