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Fig. 2

From: Timing and original features of flagellum assembly in trypanosomes during development in the tsetse fly

Fig. 2

The short new flagellum is inside the flagellar pocket at an early stage of elongation. Images were collected by FIB-SEM and segmented to generate the 3D model. The full stack is shown at Additional file 1: Video S1. a Slice view of a trypomastigote cell, the short new flagellum is laterally connected to the mature flagellum. b Top view of segmented kinetoplast (purple), new flagellum (orange) basal body (indicated by a white arrowhead), mature flagellum (red), and nucleus (blue). The new flagellum is located in a more posterior region in relation to the mature flagellum. The diameter of the flagellum looks larger than that of the basal body because the membrane was used for segmentation. c Top view of the 3D model showing internal architecture of the cell including the position of the new basal body (white arrowhead) and the mature basal body (black arrowhead) and the entire elongated nucleus. d The new flagellum is inside the flagellar pocket and it is not visualized at the cell surface. The cell body is in grey and the mature flagellum is in red. Abbreviations: NF, new flagellum; MF, mature flagellum; K, kinetoplast; N, nucleus. Notes: White and black arrowheads indicate the new and the mature basal bodies, respectively. Anterior and posterior regions of the cell are indicated on panel a. Scale-bars: 2 µm

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