The hows and whys of amastigote flagellum motility in Trypanosoma cruzi
ABSTRACT The protist Trypanosoma cruzi exhibits several extracellular stages characterized by the presence of a long and motile flagellum and one intracellular life cycle stage termed amastigote, which possesses a tiny flagellum barely exiting the flagellar pocket. This stage was so far described as...
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American Society for Microbiology
2023-08-01
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.00531-23 |