Trichomonadida
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The Trichomonadida ( old Greek thrix 'hair', monas 'unit') are an order of the Parabasalia.
They are 5 to 25 µm long, oval protozoa with a nucleus and an axis rod ( axostyle ) made up of thousands of microtubules . The collection of large dictyosomes is called the parabasal body. Instead of mitochondria , the hydrogenosomes are used to generate energy. Several flagella are often formed. There is no cytostome and no peroxisomes .
Trichomonadida are microaerophilic anaerobes . They multiply by simply dividing them into two parts. True cysts do not form, but some species such as Tritrichomonas muris do form pseudocysts.
The order is divided into five families:
literature
Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna, Horst Zahner, Johannes Eckert, Peter Deplazes: Textbook of parasitology for veterinary medicine . Georg Thieme Verlag, 3rd edition 2012, ISBN 9783830412069 , p. 33.
