Merozoite formation in the erythrocytic stages of the malaria parasite plasmodium vinckei

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Abstract
A study of merozoite formation in the rodent malaria parasite P. vinckei, with both light and electron microscopes, indicated that the cycle in the red cell has 3 successive phases: Several nuclear divisions (usually 3), without cytoplasmic cleavage to produce a true "plasmodium" or syncytium with 8 nuclei. The formation of cytoplasmic protrusions by the plasmodium: each nucleus of the plasmodoum then migrates into 1 of these protrusions. The nucleated protrusions become detached as merozoites leaving a residual body in which pigment granules are segregated.

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