Figure 1:

Life cycle of Plasmodium parasites including developmental stages in vertebrate and invertebrate hosts and transmission between hosts. Asterisks indicate the omic studies (see Table 3 for specific references) that have been performed for the different life cycle stages: black asterisks indicate transcriptomics studies; blue asterisks indicate proteomics studies; and red asterisks indicate metabolomics and/or lipidomics studies. The crescent-shaped gametocytes depicted represent the morphology in Plasmodium falciparum; other Plasmodium species have rounded/brick-shaped gametocytes.