#kinetoplast — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #kinetoplast, aggregated by home.social.
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How #Trypanosomes keep their mitochondrial genome https://fems-microbiology.org/femsmicroblog-how-trypanosomes-keep-their-mitochondrial-genome/
Mitochondrial #genome maintenance—the #kinetoplast story: Simona Amodeo et al. https://academic.oup.com/femsre/advance-article/doi/10.1093/femsre/fuac047/6855247
The parasite #Trypanosoma brucei lives and replicates in insect vectors like the fly. During the mating process, both its #nucleus and #mitochondrion replicate and exchange their genetic information, while the mitochondrial mechanism is still incompletely understood.