Fig. 3 in Unexpected absence of exo-erythrocytic merogony during high gametocytaemia in two species of Haemoproteus (Haemosporida: Haemoproteidae), including description of Haemoproteus angustus n. sp. (lineage hCWT7) and a report of previously unknown residual bodies during in vitro gametogenesis

Fig. 3. Comparison of fully grown gametocytes of Haemoproteus angustus n. sp. (lineage hCWT7) from the blood of Curruca communis (A–D), H. belopolskyi (lineage hHIICT1) from the blood of Hippolais icterina (E–H) as well as H. parabelopolskyi (hSYAT2) (I–L), H. pallidulus (hSYAT3) (M–P), H. homogeneae (hSYAT16) (Q–T) and H. majoris (hWW2) (U–X) from the blood of Sylvia atricapilla. Note: the markedly attenuated gametocytes of the new species (A–D), which are not present in other Haemoproteus parasites (E–X); the fully grown gametocytes of H. belopolskyi (F, H) and H. parabelopolskyi (J, L) are bigger than those of H. angustus n. sp.; the pigment granules are predominantly roundish and small in H. pallidulus (M–P); the fully grown gametocytes are small and do not reach poles of infected erythrocytes in H. homogeneae (R, T); the erythrocyte nuclei are displaced laterally by H. majoris (V, X) – all these feature are not characteristic of H. angustus sp. nov. Symbols are the same as in Fig. 2. Giemsa-stained thin blood films. Scale bar = 10 µm.