FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term metacyclogenesis ID (Ontology) GO:0140384 (Gene Ontology)
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.[ PubMed:12152483 PubMed:21514274 PubMed:2659372 PubMed:29091711 PubMed:29409544 ]
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  formation of structure involved in a symbiotic process
   |__development of symbiont in host
       |__metacyclogenesis
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