A sticky situation: When trypanosomatids attach to insect tissues
Fig 1
Diagrams of trypanosomatids in their motile and attached forms.
The large dark oval is the nucleus. The small dark disk is the kDNA. Green is the axoneme. Attachment plaques are shown as green lines in attached forms. A detailed description of swimming morphologies can be found in [15]. In monoxenous parasites and Leishmania spp., the attachment plaque forms at the tip of the shortened flagellum. In T. cruzi, the attachment plaque is also found at the tip but the flagellum is only slightly shorter. In T. brucei and T. congolense, the attachment plaque(s) form on the lateral portion of the flagellum.