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Fig. 8 | Parasites & Vectors

Fig. 8

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. 8

Ultrastructural features of T. wauwau revealed by TEM microscopy. Cultured epimastigotes: transversal section showing three nuclei with large and condensed nucleolus and a single kinetoplast (a); acidocalcisomes (b), flagellum with a conspicuous paraxial structure (b’, c), highly compacted disk-shaped kinetoplast (b, c), enlarged mitochondria filled with many cristae (c), structure resembling a short cytostome-cytopharynx complex (d). Nucleus (N), Kinetoplast (K), Flagellum (F), Acidocalcisomes (Ac), Mitochondria (M), Cytostome (Cy), Paraxial structure (PR)

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