ookinete stage 2008-07-31T11:07:15Z IDOMAL:0000297 IDOMAL:0000297 PLO:00006 The banana-shaped motile stage of Plasmodium that the zygote develops into. It moves out of the blood bolus through the peritrophic membrane and through the midgut epithelium reaching the basal lamina surrounding the midgut. idomal_namespace louis invertebrate host stage