About this Research Topic
The aim of the research topic is to understand how parasitic protozoa cope with their stressful environments in the different life cycle stages be it intracellular or extracellular lifestyles. It is also our aim to highlight how such stress signals are associated in initiating signal transduction leading to parasite resistance, survival, important facets of pathogenesis, and infectious disease manifestation and dissemination.
Additional scope and manuscript information:
(i) Manuscripts are to be full, regular research papers having a word limit of 6000 words without figure legends or the reference list. Specific themes: stress signaling in Apicomplexa, stress signaling in flagellates, stress signaling in Amoeba, Mechanisms of protozoon parasite resistance to stress, Molecular Signaling aiding to parasite survival and infectivity against environmental stress (ii) The list of proposed manuscripts should represent a good coverage of the highest quality focusing on a stress sensing signaling of parasitic protozoa and their mechanisms to resist the stress. (iii) Ideally, a “mini”-review paper can be written for the special edition, perhaps by the Guest Editor(s), and perhaps to introduce the volume in place of a traditional preface. This mini-review introduction is intended to lead the reader into the subject of the Special Issue, summarize the new findings, and suggest perspectives for further work. This mini-review will also go through the normal peer-review process.
Keywords: stress, infection, signaling, protozoa, resistance
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