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SCIENCE
Volume 294, Issue 5542, Pages 610-612Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1063775
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African trypanosomes are protozoan parasites that cause sleeping sickness in humans through a tsetse fly vector. The procyclic form of Trypanosoma brucei has a single, attached flagellum that describes a helical path along the cell from posterior to anterior. During division, a specific flagellum-flagellum connection is elaborated between the new and old flagellum. This connector was present only during cell duplication and was found to be involved in the replication of the helical cell pattern and polarity. This finding implicates the concept of cytotaxis in cell morphogenesis in trypanosomes.
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