girdle
Large hypermastigid (450-500 µm) symbiont in Mastotermes darwiniensis. Body broadly triangular in shape with an anterior dome-shaped rostrum completely flagellated. Cell body covered with longitudinal rows of flagella except the amoeboid posterior part which is separated by a girdle and used for wood ingestion. The nucleus is situated in the anterior region; the axostylar fibres surround the nucleus and some group backwards to form an axial axostylar trunk. Deltotrichonympha operculata from Mastotermes darwiniensis girdle revealed by immunofluorescence.
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Deltotrichonympha operculata
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