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Electron microscopic study of the flagellar apparatus of promastigote and amastigote forms of Leishmania revealed major differences. Promastigotes were characterized by possessing a paraxial rod with a well developed lattice-like complex alongside the emerging axoneme enclosed within the flagellar sheath. The latter was anchored to the protozoan plasma membrane by focal or spot-like macular desmosomes at the emergence site. With cytodifferentiation to amastigotes there was a notable reduction in the axonemal size and its microtubular elements, absence of paraxial rod and a remarkable binding of the endocellular flagellum to its pocket through dense zonular desmosomal adhesions.
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