This monoxenous, promastigote protozoan species is a parasite of insects (only in female mosquitoes – found in the USA and China) and is claimed to be positioned at the base of the trypanosomatid tree and thus considered as ancestral for the group as a whole. Flegontov et al. (2013) e.g., demonstrated that the division of the kinetoplast DNA proceeds nuclear divisions (as in other trypanosomatids) and that the main ultrastructural features are also very similar.
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Flegontov P et al (2013) Paratrypanosoma is a novel early-branching trypanosomatid. Curr Biol 23:1787–1793
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Hamilton PB et al (2004) Trypanosomes are monophyletic. Int J Parasitol 34:1393–1404
Lukes J et al (1997) Analysis of ribosomal RNA genes suggests that trypanosomes are monophyletic. J Mol Evol 44:521–527
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Mehlhorn, H. (2015). Paratrypanosoma confusum . In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_4167-1
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