A late liver stage rodent malaria parasite (left) is surrounded by a parasitophorous vacuole membrane (red) and has a complex apicoplast (green). Parasites lacking genes for apicoplast‐targeted phosphatidic acid synthesis are attenuated (right). For further details readers are referred to the article by Lindner et al. on pp. 679‐693 of this issue. Issue 4 (February 2014)