请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 Crithidia fasciculata
释义

  1. Life cycle

  2. Role in research

  3. References

  4. Further reading

{{Italic title}}{{Taxobox
| name = Crithidia fasciculata
| domain = Eukaryota
| unranked_regnum = Excavata
| phylum = Euglenozoa
| classis = Kinetoplastea
| ordo = Trypanosomatida
| genus = Crithidia
| species = C. fasciculata
| binomial = Crithidia fasciculata
| binomial_authority =
}}

Crithidia fasciculata is a species of parasitic excavates. C. fasciculata, like other species of Crithidia have a single host life cycle with insect host, in the case of C. fasciculata this is the mosquito. C. fasciculata have low host species specificity and can infect many species of mosquito.

Life cycle

C. fasciculata is found in two morphologically different life cycle stages - the free swimming choanomastigote form, which has a long external flagellum for motility, and the attached, immotile, amastigote form in the mosquito gut. Amastigotes excreted in the faeces contaminate the mosquito habitat; contamination of flowers during nectar feeding is common.

Transmission of C fasciculata primarily occurs when amastigotes, washed into standing water, are ingested by mosquito larvae. The amastigotes are typically found in the rectum of a larva. Each molt of the larva results in loss of infection, but it is generally quickly re-acquired from the environment by ingestion of more amastigotes. When the fourth instar larva pupates the amastigote infection is maintained in the gut through metamorphosis giving rise to an infected adult mosquito.

Role in research

C. fasciculata is an example of a non-human infective trypanosomatid and is related to several human parasites, including Trypanosoma brucei (which causes African trypanosomiasis) and Leishmania spp. (which cause Leishmaniasis).[1] C. fasciculata parasitizes several species of insects and has been widely used to test new therapeutic strategies against parasitic infections. C. fasciculata is often used as a model organism in research into trypanosomatid biology that may then be applied to understanding the biology of the human infective species.

As is typical of the trypanosomatids, but unlike many other protists, C. fasciculata possess one mitochondrion. The mitochondrial DNA is found in a single structure, the kinetoplast, at the base of the single flagellum. As is common with parasitic species C. fasciculata requires a high nutrient content broth (including heme and folic acid) in which to grow under laboratory conditions.

References

1. ^{{cite journal|last1=Rojas|first1=Robert|last2=Segovia|first2=Christopher|last3=Santander|first3=Javier|last4=Manque|first4=Patricio|title=The Effect of Tunicamycin on the Glucose Uptake, Growth, and Cellular Adhesion in the Protozoan Parasite Crithidia fasciculata|journal=Current Microbiology|date=4 June 2014|volume=69|issue=4|pages=541–8|doi=10.1007/s00284-014-0620-x|pmid=24894907}}
{{cite book |author=Oliver Wilford Olsen |title=Animal parasites: their life cycles and ecology |publisher=Dover |location=Mineola, N.Y |year=1986 |pages= |isbn=0-486-65126-6 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}

Further reading

{{cite journal|last1=Awadelkariem|first1=FM|last2=Hunter|first2=KJ|last3=Kirby|first3=GC|last4=Warhurst|first4=DC|title=Crithidia fasciculata as Feeder Cells for Malaria Parasites|journal=Experimental Parasitology|date=February 1995|volume=80|issue=1|pages=98–106|doi=10.1006/expr.1995.1011}}{{cite journal|last1=Rojas|first1=Robert|title=The Effect of Tunicamycin on the Glucose Uptake, Growth, and Cellular Adhesion in the Protozoan Parasite Crithidia fasciculata|journal=Current Microbiology|date=June 4, 2014|volume=69|issue=4|pages=541–548|doi=10.1007/s00284-014-0620-x|pmid=24894907}}{{cite journal|last1=Alcolea|first1=Peter J.|last2=Alonso|first2=Ana|last3=Garcia-Tabares|first3=Francisco|last4=Toraño|first4=Alfredo|last5=Larraga|first5=Vicente|title=An Insight into the Proteome of Crithidia fasciculata Choanomastigotes as a Comparative Approach to Axenic Growth, Peanut Lectin Agglutination and Differentiation of Leishmania spp. Promastigotes|journal=PLOS ONE|date=December 2014|volume=9|issue=12|pages=26|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0113837|pmid=25503511|pmc=4263474}}{{Taxonbar|from=Q5186584}}

4 : Trypanosomatida|Parasitic excavates|Model organisms|Parasites of Diptera

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/9/20 16:24:21