The within‐host dynamics of infected red blood cells (i.e., asexual parasites; top row) and gametocytes (bottom row). Coloured lines show dynamics when parasites are using the optimal conversion profiles for a given drug treatment (a: low dose, purple; b: medium dose, blue; c: high dose, red). The black lines show dynamics in the absence of treatment, for parasites using the optimal drug‐free pattern of conversion, while the dashed grey lines show how the different drug treatment regimes impact these dynamics if parasite life history patterns are unchanged from the drug‐free optimum. Grey bars denote the days of drug treatment and the horizontal lines in the bottom row indicate the gametocyte density at which there is a 10% probability of transmitting to a mosquito, according to Bell et al. (2012)