The early branching eukaryote Naegleria gruberi can transform transiently from an amoeboid life form lacking centrioles and flagella to a flagellate life form where these elements are present, ...

2016). In interphase, one of the centrioles can serve as basal body for a primary cilium while the pericentriolar material is a principal site for cytoplasmic microtubule nucleation and organization.