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Going bananas!
Plasmodium falciparum sexual stage gametocytes undergo remarkable transformations as they develop to maturity inside the red blood cell of their host. This dramatic metamorphosis is highlighted in these 3D rendered images from Serial Block Face Scanning Electron Microscopy (SBF-SEM). The formation of a membrane structure called the inner membrane complex (magenta) which drives the gametocyte elongation process. The nucleus (yellow), mitochondria (red) and red blood cell (dark red) are also rendered. Dixon et al.
Image Credit: Boyin Liu and Matthew Dixon, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne.
Citation: (2017) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 13(10) October 2017. PLoS Pathog 13(10): ev13.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v13.i10
Published: October 31, 2017
Copyright: © 2017 Liu and Dixon. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Plasmodium falciparum sexual stage gametocytes undergo remarkable transformations as they develop to maturity inside the red blood cell of their host. This dramatic metamorphosis is highlighted in these 3D rendered images from Serial Block Face Scanning Electron Microscopy (SBF-SEM). The formation of a membrane structure called the inner membrane complex (magenta) which drives the gametocyte elongation process. The nucleus (yellow), mitochondria (red) and red blood cell (dark red) are also rendered. Dixon et al.
Image Credit: Boyin Liu and Matthew Dixon, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne.