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Figure 3

From: Morphological and molecular characterization and phylogenetic relationships of a new species of trypanosome in Tapirus terrestris (lowland tapir), Trypanosoma terrestris sp. nov., from Atlantic Rainforest of southeastern Brazil

Figure 3

Transmission electron microscopy on T. terrestris . Logarithmic and stationary phase from epimastigote forms (a, b, d, f) and trypomastigote forms (c, e). Ultrastructural organization, mitochondria, nucleus and kinetoplast common to Trypanosoma (a-d). Large and loose kinetoplast (c, d). Multiple lysosomes (b, d), reservosomes (b), cytosome (b). Flagellum and paraxonemal structure (c-e), well developed flagellar pocket (d-e) and basal bodies in a structure that shelters the flagellum in epimastigote forms (f). Contractile vacuole (*). M, mitochondria; N, nucleus; K, kinetoplast; F, flagellum; R, reservosome; L, lysosome; Cy, cytosome; FP, flagellar pocket; PR, paraxial rod; BB, basal bodies.

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