microgametocyten.

1900 Amer. Naturalist 34 766 They [sc. the sporozoites] give rise to two sexually different stages, the microgametocytes and the macrogametes.

1903 E. A. Minchin in E. R. Lankester Treat. on Zool. I. ii. 215 Since..the gametes are differentiated into male elements or microgametes, and female elements or macrogametes, their mother cells must be distinguished further into microgametocytes and macrogametocytes.

1964 M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) xxviii. 440 Whereas the majority of trophozoites follow the asexual cycle, some of them develop into sexual forms known as gametocytes. The gametocytes comprise the male or microgametocyte, and the female or macrogametocyte.

1975 Protistologica 11 263 Microgametes emerged singly or in groups from conical projections in the surface of the microgametocyte.

1994 Jrnl. Parasitol. 80 371 (title) Correlation of phosphoinositide hydrolysis with exflagellation in the malaria microgametocyte.