**Meet the editor**

Dr Okwa, Omolade Olayinka is the Associate professor (Parasitology) of Zoology at Faculty of Science, Lagos State University, Nigeria. She is a Nigerian born scientist with a Ph.d in Parasitology (1997) from the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, a M. Sc Cellular Parasitology (1992), and a B. Sc (Hons) Zoology (1990) from the Department of Zoology, University of

Ibadan, Nigeria. She has 42 academic publications in local and international journals. Dr. Okwa is conducting research on Onchocerciasis and Malaria and teaches parasitology at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She received the Common wealth Academic Fellowship supported by British Council tenable at Center for Entomology and Parasitology (CAEP), School of Life sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom and was a honorary visiting research fellow there (October, 2004 – 2007). While there, she worked on the Transmission dynamics of Malaria in Nigeria. Dr. Okwa is a member of learned societies such as the Malaria Society of Nigeria, Nigerian Society for Parasitology, Science Association of Nigeria, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Zoological Society of Nigeria, and Nigeria mosquito control association.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Omolade O. Okwa

John C. Igweh

V. Choumet

Hiroko Asahi

Chapter 2 **Biology of Malaria Parasites 17** 

**Part 2 Malaria Vector Research 37** 

**Part 3 Malaria Parasite Research 71** 

Chapter 7 **Human Erythrocyte Remodelling** 

Chapter 5 **Intraerythrocytic** *Plasmodium falciparum*

**Growth in Serum-Free Medium with** 

Chapter 6 **Development of Humanized Mice to Study Asexual** 

R.K. Tyagi, N.K. Garg, T. Sahu and P. Prabha

**by** *Plasmodium falciparum* **107** 

Chapter 3 **Proteomics of** *Anopheles gambiae* **39** 

**Part 1 Introduction and Biology of Malaria 1** 

Chapter 1 **Malaria, a Pending Problem in Sub-Saharan Africa 3** 

Chapter 4 **Facing Malaria Parasite with Mosquito Symbionts 57** 

Alessia Cappelli, Michela Mosca and Ulisse Ulissi

**an Emphasis on Growth-Promoting Factors 73** 

**Blood Stage** *Plasmodium falciparum* **Infection 91** 

Xue Yan Yam, Alassane Mbengue and Catherine Braun-Breton

Guido Favia, Irene Ricci, Patrizia Scuppa, Claudia Damiani, Paolo Rossi, Aida Capone, Chenoa De Freece, Matteo Valzano,
