Metakinetoplastina

Metakinetoplastina
Trypanosoma cruzi
Systematics
without rank: Excavata without rank: Discoba without rank: Discicristata without rank: Euglenozoa without rank: Kinetoplastea without rank: Metakinetoplastina
Scientific name
Metakinetoplastina

Metakinetoplastina are a taxon within the Kinetoplastea .

They are in the wild Neobodonida , Parabodonida and Eubodonida and parasitically living trypanosomatid divided. The free-living Metakinetoplastina have two flagella , the front flagella carries a series of cilia. The posterior flagella is either fused with the cell body and is free. The Trypanosomatida, on the other hand, have only one flagella, which corresponds to the anterior flagella of the rest of the metakinetoplastina. It can be connected to the cell surface via several adhesive points, creating an undulating membrane. The parasitic metakinetoplastina reproduce only in insects . Some species show host changes between insects and vertebrates or insects and plants and play a role as pathogens.

literature

• Jens Boenigk, Sabina Wodniok: Biodiversity and Earth History . Springer-Verlag, 2015, ISBN 9783642553899 , p. 304.