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Trypanosomatida, the Glossary

Trypanosomatida is a group of kinetoplastid unicellular organisms distinguished by having only a single flagellum.^[1]

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Euglenozoa orders
Extant Albian first appearances
Parasitic excavates

Achromobacter

Achromobacter is a genus of bacteria, included in the family Alcaligenaceae in the order Burkholderiales.

Acidocalcisome

Acidocalcisomes are rounded electron-dense acidic organelles, rich in calcium and polyphosphate and between 100 nm and 200 nm in diameter.

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African trypanosomiasis

African trypanosomiasis is an insect-borne parasitic infection of humans and other animals.

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Albian

The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.

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Amastigote

An amastigote is a protist cell that does not have visible external flagella or cilia.

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Amber

Amber is fossilized tree resin.

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Angomonas

Angomonas is a genus of protists in the order of Trypanosomatida. Trypanosomatida and Angomonas are parasitic excavates.

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Angomonas deanei

Angomonas deanei is a flagellated trypanosomatid protozoan. Trypanosomatida and Angomonas deanei are parasitic excavates.

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Angomonas desouzai

Angomonas desouzai is a parasitic protist from the order Trypanosomatida. Trypanosomatida and Angomonas desouzai are parasitic excavates.

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A basal body (synonymous with basal granule, kinetosome, and in older cytological literature with blepharoplast) is a protein structure found at the base of a eukaryotic undulipodium (cilium or flagellum). The basal body was named by Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann in 1880. It is formed from a centriole and several additional protein structures, and is, essentially, a modified centriole.

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Blastocrithidia

Blastocrithidia is a genus of parasitic flagellate protist belonging to the family Trypanosomatidae. Trypanosomatida and Blastocrithidia are parasitic excavates.

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Burdigalian

The Burdigalian is, in the geologic timescale, an age or stage in the early Miocene.

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Candidatus

In prokaryote nomenclature, Candidatus (abbreviated Ca.; Latin for "candidate of Roman office") is used to name prokaryotic taxa that are well characterized but yet-uncultured.

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Chagas disease

Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical parasitic disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi.

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Circulatory system

The circulatory system is a system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the entire body of a human or other vertebrate.

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Crithidia

Crithidia is a genus of trypanosomatid Euglenozoa. Trypanosomatida and Crithidia are parasitic excavates.

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Crithidia brevicula

Crithidia brevicula is a species of parasitic flagellate protist belonging to the family Trypanosomatidae. Trypanosomatida and Crithidia brevicula are parasitic excavates.

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Diaphorina citri

Diaphorina citri, the Asian citrus psyllid, is a sap-sucking, hemipteran bug now in the taxonomic family Psyllidae.

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Dominican amber

Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic derived from resin of the extinct tree Hymenaea protera.

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Endosymbiont

An endosymbiont or endobiont is an organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.

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Flagellum

A flagellum (flagella) (Latin for 'whip' or 'scourge') is a hairlike appendage that protrudes from certain plant and animal sperm cells, from fungal spores (zoospores), and from a wide range of microorganisms to provide motility.

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Gastrointestinal tract

The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus. The GI tract contains all the major organs of the digestive system, in humans and other animals, including the esophagus, stomach, and intestines.

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Geminigeraceae

Geminigeraceae is a family of cryptophytes containing the five genera Geminigera, Guillardia, Hanusia, Proteomonas and Teleaulax.

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Genes & Development

Genes & Development is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering molecular biology, molecular genetics, cell biology, and development.

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Genetic recombination

Genetic recombination (also known as genetic reshuffling) is the exchange of genetic material between different organisms which leads to production of offspring with combinations of traits that differ from those found in either parent.

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Genome Taxonomy Database

The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB) is an online database that maintains information on a proposed nomenclature of prokaryotes, following a phylogenomic approach based on a set of conserved single-copy proteins.

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Glossary of biology

This glossary of biology terms is a list of definitions of fundamental terms and concepts used in biology, the study of life and of living organisms.

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Glycolysis

Glycolysis is the metabolic pathway that converts glucose into pyruvate and, in most organisms, occurs in the liquid part of cells (the cytosol).

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Glycosome

The glycosome is a membrane-enclosed organelle that contains the glycolytic enzymes.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Heme

Heme (American English), or haem (Commonwealth English, both pronounced /hi:m/), is a ring-shaped iron-containing molecular component of hemoglobin, which is necessary to bind oxygen in the bloodstream.

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Heteroxeny

Heteroxeny, or heteroxenous development, characterizes a parasite whose development involves several host species.

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Hispaniola

Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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Host (biology)

In biology and medicine, a host is a larger organism that harbours a smaller organism; whether a parasitic, a mutualistic, or a commensalist guest (symbiont).

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Human

Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.

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Insect

Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.

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International Journal for Parasitology

The International Journal for Parasitology is an international medical journal published for the Australian Society for Parasitology by Elsevier.

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Intracellular parasite

Intracellular parasites are microparasites that are capable of growing and reproducing inside the cells of a host.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.

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Jaenimonas

Jaenimonas is a genus of trypanosomatid parasite that infects mushroom-feeding ''Drosophila'', similar to Crithidia parasites of Bumblebees. Trypanosomatida and Jaenimonas are parasitic excavates.

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Journal of Cell Biology

The Journal of Cell Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Rockefeller University Press.

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Journal of Cell Science

The Journal of Cell Science (formerly the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of cell biology.

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Kentomonas

Kentomonas is a monotypic genus of protist in the order Trypanosomatida.

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Kinetoplast

A kinetoplast is a network of circular DNA (called kDNA) inside a mitochondrion that contains many copies of the mitochondrial genome.

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Kinetoplastida

Kinetoplastida (or Kinetoplastea, as a class) is a group of flagellated protists belonging to the phylum Euglenozoa, and characterised by the presence of a distinctive organelle called the kinetoplast (hence the name), a granule containing a large mass of DNA.

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Leech

Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory worms that comprise the subclass Hirudinea within the phylum Annelida.

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Leishmania

Leishmania is a parasitic protozoan, a single-celled organism of the genus Leishmania that is responsible for the disease leishmaniasis. Trypanosomatida and leishmania are parasitic excavates.

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Leishmania mexicana

Leishmania mexicana is a species of obligate intracellular parasites of the protozoan genus Leishmania. Trypanosomatida and Leishmania mexicana are parasitic excavates.

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Leishmaniasis

Leishmaniasis is a wide array of clinical manifestations caused by protozoal parasites of the Trypanosomatida genus Leishmania.

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Leptomonas

Leptomonas is a genus of parasitic flagellate protist belonging to family Trypanosomatidae and subfamily Leishmaniinae sensu Maslov & Lukeš 2012. Trypanosomatida and Leptomonas are parasitic excavates.

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McGraw Hill Education

McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.

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Meiosis

Meiosis ((since it is a reductional division) is a special type of cell division of germ cells in sexually-reproducing organisms that produces the gametes, the sperm or egg cells. It involves two rounds of division that ultimately result in four cells, each with only one copy of each chromosome (haploid).

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Million years ago

Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to (i.e. years), or approximately 31.6 teraseconds.

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Monoxenous development

Monoxenous development, or monoxeny, characterizes a parasite whose development is restricted to a single host species.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Nature Reviews Microbiology

Nature Reviews Microbiology is a monthly peer-reviewed review journal published by Nature Portfolio.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Novymonas

Novymonas esmeraldas is a protist and member of flagellated trypanosomatids.

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Organelle

In cell biology, an organelle is a specialized subunit, usually within a cell, that has a specific function.

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Paleoleishmania

Paleoleishmania is an extinct genus of kinetoplastids, a monophyletic group of unicellular parasitic flagellate protozoa.

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Parasitism

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Society.

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Phlebotominae

The Phlebotominae are a subfamily of the family Psychodidae.

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Phytomonas

Phytomonas is a genus of trypanosomatids that infect plant species.

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Plant

Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.

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Scanning electron microscope

A scanning electron microscope (SEM) is a type of electron microscope that produces images of a sample by scanning the surface with a focused beam of electrons.

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Sexual reproduction

Sexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that involves a complex life cycle in which a gamete (haploid reproductive cells, such as a sperm or egg cell) with a single set of chromosomes combines with another gamete to produce a zygote that develops into an organism composed of cells with two sets of chromosomes (diploid).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypanosomatida

Also known as Endomastigote, Epimastigote, Kinetoplastibacterium, Opisthomastigote, Promastigote, Trypanosomatid, Trypanosomatidae, Trypanosomes, Trypanosomid, Trypomastigote, Δ-amastin.

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Trypanosomatida, the Glossary

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See also

Euglenozoa orders

Extant Albian first appearances

Parasitic excavates

References