TABLE 3.

Organelles of Giardia

Conventional eukaryotic organelle	Equivalent Giardia organelle	Reference(s)
Nucleus	Two nearly identical nuclei
Nucleolus	rDNA not organized in nucleolar pattern, but genes for nucleolus-localized proteins in genome and candidate nucleolus demonstrated by EM and confocal microscopy	110, 330, 331
Mitochondrion	Mitosome	5
Golgi	Numerous features of Golgi transport done by ER	142
Endosome/lysosome	Peripheral vacuoles or vesicles	145, 332–334
Peroxisome	Peroxisome-like proteins in cytoplasmic vesicles	131
Exosome	Exosome-like vesicles with minimal ESCRT	150