Fig. 2 in Life cycle stages of Hepatozoon ingwe (Apicomplexa: Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) in an Ixodes sp. tick vector (Arthropoda: Ixodida: Ixodidae) and an African leopard Panthera pardus pardus

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Fig. 2. Diagram of the possible life cycle of Hepatozoon ingwe in its intermediate and definitive hosts. This illustration includes redrawn portrayals of merogonic stages of Hepatozoon felis and an unnamed species of Hepatozoon in spotted hyenas from the same area in South Africa as the leopard from the current study. a and b: Mature and extracellular gamonts in peripheral blood of the African leopard are ingested with a blood meal by an Ixodes species tick (c), either by a nymph (c1) (Ewing et al., 2002) (redrawn from Short and Pesapane, 2024) or by an adult (c2); d: Male microgamete and female macrogametes fuse to form a zygote (redrawn from Baneth et al., 2007); e: Zygote or early oocyst (redrawn from Baneth et al., 2007; Gianelli et al., 2017); f: Multi-nucleate sporulating oocyst with immature sporocysts exiting from apexal area; g: Young, free-lying sporocyst at the onset of sporozoite formation; h: Mature, free-lying sporocyst containing fully developed sporozoites; j: Free-lying extracellular sporozoites; k: African leopard ingests Ixodes sp. tick containing infective stages in its haemocoel; l: Young meront (Baneth et al., 2013); m: Maturing meront (Baneth et al., 2013); n: Mature meront (McCully et al., 1975; Baneth et al., 2013); o: Macromerozoite undergoes secondary merogony (O'Dwyer, 2011); p: Micromerozoite (O'Dwyer, 2011); q: Micromerozoite invades lymphocyte and grow into immature gamont. Not to scale.

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