Klosteria
genus of Kinetoplastea
Klosteria is a genus of free-living neobodonid kinetoplastids. It was isolated from samples from the Baltic Sea in 1994, in the town of Kloster, Germany. It is a bacterivorous organism. It currently includes only one species, Klosteria bodomorphis.
Description.
The organism has two heterodynamic flagella, although it may have four. These flagella emerge from the cytoplasm at the flagellar pocket. The terminal ends of the flagella are thin and are known as acronemes. It feeds by phagocytosis through the cytostome-cytopharynx system. Ingested bacteria are packaged into food vacuoles for digestion.
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