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Cryptic Parasitic Excavates Enigma
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- 1. Clade including both free-living and parasitic flagellates with distinctive flagellar hairs
- 2. A group containing some free-living excavates but excluding parasitic diplomonads and kinetoplastids
- 4. Protozoan genus named after physician who studied kala-azar in colonial India
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- 3. Term evoking slippery flagellated parasites adhering to mucosal surfaces, like some excavates
- 5. Genus causing African sleeping sickness, evading immune response with surface variant switching
- 6. Mitochondrial DNA-containing structure unique to certain parasitic excavates
- 7. Excavate with two nuclei and lacking canonical mitochondria, often intestinal pathogens
- 8. Flagellated parasite infamous for causing 'beaver fever' in contaminated water
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