crystalloid

id: GO:0044312
name: crystalloid
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A transient, cytoplasmic organelle found in Plasmodium species that resembles a cytoplasmic inclusion body and whose function is poorly understood. Crystalloids form in ookinetes and disappear after ookinete-to-oocyst transformation.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0043232intracellular non-membrane-bounded organelle
GO:0044444cytoplasmic part