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Fig. 7 | Parasites & Vectors

Fig. 7

From: New insights into the evolution of the Trypanosoma cruzi clade provided by a new trypanosome species tightly linked to Neotropical Pteronotus bats and related to an Australian lineage of trypanosomes

Fig. 7

Morphology of T. wauwau developmental forms in culture assessed by SEM. Small dividing forms and rounded flagellates common in early cultures (a, b),rosettes of epimastigotes attached by the flagella (c), large multiple fission form showing the anterior ends and the flagella of many parasites that remained united by the posterior extremity (d), epimastigotes of variable size and shape likely originated from multiple and irregular division forms (e, f, h), log-phase regular epimastigotes and binary division (g), small flagellate resembling the trypomastigotes of stationary-phase cultures (i)

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