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<font size=3>At 08:56 PM 04/04/09, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Let's talk about something
else!<br>
Bob K-K</font></blockquote><br>
I agree - enough is enough already so soon.<br>
Surely a suitable subject for discussion is the etymology of the
flagellated forms in the sand fly.<br>
<font size=3>in the mid-20th Century we changed from Leishman-Donovan
bodies to amastigotes and leptomonads to promastigotes.<br>
Now at the beginning of the 21st C we have:<br>
"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
<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com//science/journal/00207519"><u>
International Journal for Parasitology</a></u>
<a href="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">
<u>Volume 37, Issue 10</a></u>, August 2007, Pages 1097-1106. <br>
Does anyone know whether all these morphs occur in all species in their
phlebotomine hosts? And is monad the correct suffix for these forms?<br>
Monad = unity and/or a flagellated protozoan (as of the genus
<i>Monas</i>). <br>
Jake Jacobson<br><br>
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<dd><font size=3>No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a
single experiment can prove me wrong.
<dd>Albert E. <br><br></font>
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