immunofluorescence

Description:

Spironympha are spirotrichonymphids with a spindle-shaped body and spiralled flagellar rows that do not reach the posterior end. Nucleus penetrating into the columella or distant from the anterior rostrum. Axostyle arising around or above the nucleus, composed of several sub-axostyles forming a single axostylar trunk or several separated fibres. Spironympha kofoidi from Reticulitermes flavipes, with two or five flagellar rows, nucleus and axostylar trunk (immunofluorescence).