A Representative micrographs of EDMVs in gametocytes (upper panel, scale bars = 1 μm) and asexual blood stages (lower panel, scale bars = 0.1 μm). Arrowheads highlight examples of EDMVs. B. Rendering of exemplar gametocyte mitochondrion (red, high transparency) and apicoplast (yellow, low transparency) with putative organelle interfaces rendered in black. Representative micrographs for two interfaces and respective zoomed crops are shown below. Scale bars = 1 μm. C Same representation as (B) for a schizont. M Mitochondrion, ER Endoplasmic reticulum, Nucl Nucleus, FV Food vacuole. For gametocytes all observations are based on and consistent throughout four biological replicates. The asexual blood stage observations are based on two biological replicates. Scale bar = 1 μm. Evers F, Roverts R, Boshoven C, Kea-Te Lindert M, Verhoef JMJ, Sommerdijk N, Sinden RE, Akiva A, Kooij TWA. Comparative 3D ultrastructure of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes. Nat Commun. 2025 PMID: 39747010