The phrase "an asexual replication" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing biological processes, particularly in reference to reproduction without the involvement of gametes.
Example: "Bacteria often reproduce through an asexual replication process known as binary fission."
Alternatives: "a non-sexual reproduction" or "asexual reproduction process."
Merozoites are then released from the liver and invade erythrocytes, leading to an exponential asexual replication cycle that is entirely responsible for the clinical signs and symptoms associated with malaria.
From a life history perspective, the asexual replication of a single-genotype malaria infection can be viewed as 'growth and maintenance' and gametocyte density as 'reproduction'reproduction
Through a complex process of asexual replication, each miracidium larva gives rise to dozens, or even hundreds, of cercariae.
Despite their diversity, their life-cycle (Fig. 1) always includes several rounds of asexual replication in a vertebrate host and sexual reproduction in a dipteran vector.
Therefore, natural parasite populations might confirm the prediction that, in the simplest case of single clone infections in a homogeneous host population, intervention strategies targeting asexual replication rate could select for increased virulence [ 9].
After a period of growth and several rounds of asexual replication, the parasite transitions into mature liver stage schizonts which contain thousands of infectious merozoites.
In striking contrast, the majority of microneme-, rhoptry-, and dense granule-specific secreted proteins were not expressed in merozoites, suggesting the existence of an unannotated suite of MIC, ROP and GRA proteins that promote merozoite asexual replication.
Broadly, however, Plasmodium invests remarkably little in transmission within the mammalian host, with only a small proportion of merozoites undergoing gametocytogenesis with each round of asexual replication (Taylor and Read 1997; Babiker et al. 2008; Dixon et al. 2008).
For example, a subcurative dose of the antimalarial chloroquine has been demonstrated to cause malaria parasites to divert resources from within host asexual replication to the production of transmission stages (gametocytes) in a Plasmodium chabaudi laboratory model (Buckling et al. 1997).
