Kinetoplast

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TEM image of the kinetoplast (K) from Trypanosoma brucei

The kinetoplast is a structure of the kinetoplastea , a class of unicellular organisms. It is an area of ​​the mitochondria that is rich in deoxyribonucleic acid (kDNA). The kinetoplast lies close to the basal body of the flagellum and is connected to it via the cell skeleton .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Boenigk, Sabina Wodniok: Biodiversity and Earth History . Springer-Verlag, 2015, ISBN 9783642553899 , p. 305.