Fig. 5
From: An essential contractile ring protein controls cell division in Plasmodium falciparum
FIB-SEM of PfCINCH-deficient parasites a Ortho-slice of rendered red blood cell with SEM image of parasite. b Rendered fully segmented merozoite with two sets of nuclei (blue), apicoplasts (green), mitochondria (pink), and rhoptries (purple). c Rendered merozoite with 36 rhoptries, 18 apicoplasts, 19 mitochondria, and 11 nuclei. d Rendered merozoite with one set of organelles. e Rendered large merozoite membrane from c with only mitochondria and apicoplasts shown. Arrow identifies free mitochondrion with no apicoplast partner. f Apical end of a cross-section of one merozoite showing the apical ring (green), rhoptries (purple), and apical electron-dense organelles (red). g Representative SEM slice of mid- parasitophorous vacuolar membrane (PVM) rupture schizont. Arrows indicate PVM break. h Rendered schizont containing one large merozoite with transparent membrane and one small merozoite with shaded membrane. i Rendered small merozoite with transparent membrane. Scale bars in renderings interpolated from structure sizes in SEM micrographs. All scale bars 500 nm
