[Leish-l] sandfly, mosquito ..

[Jake Jacobson]

At 08:56 PM 04/04/09, you wrote:
>Let's talk about something else!
>Bob K-K

I agree - enough is enough already so soon.
Surely a suitable subject for discussion is the etymology of the 
flagellated forms in the sand fly.
in the mid-20th Century we changed from Leishman-Donovan bodies to 
amastigotes and leptomonads to promastigotes.
Now at the beginning of the 21st C we have:
"The developmental sequence of the five major promastigote forms: 
procyclic promastigotes, nectomonad promastigotes, leptomonad 
promastigotes, haptomonad promastigotes and metacyclic promastigotes. 
The exact position of haptomonad promastigotes in the developmental 
sequence is uncertain". Bates 
PA 
<http://www.sciencedirect.com//science/journal/00207519>International 
Journal for 
Parasitology 
<http://www.sciencedirect.com//science?_ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%235057%232007%23999629989%23662628%23FLA%23&_cdi=5057&_pubType=J&view=c&_auth=y&_acct=C000032999&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=626711&md5=07330fba5b44fa1b4646d911b337b0f6>Volume 
37, Issue 10, August 2007, Pages 1097-1106.
Does anyone know whether all these morphs occur in all species in 
their phlebotomine hosts? And is monad the correct suffix for these forms?
Monad = unity and/or a flagellated protozoan (as of the genus Monas).
Jake Jacobson




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