Nassula
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nassula-261-13101453
title:
Nassula
text:
Nassula is a genus of unicellular ciliates, belonging to the class Nassophorea. Like other members of the class, Nassula possesses a basket-like feeding apparatus made up of cytopharyngeal rods (nematodesmata), which are themselves composed of closely packed microtubules. Nassula use this structure to ingest filamentous cyanobacteria, drawing individual strands of blue-green algae through the cytopharynx and into the body of the cell, where they are digested. As the algae are broken down, they c
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Genus of single-celled organisms
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassula
date created:
date modified:
2023-08-13T12:12:53Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Nassula.jpg","width":773,"height":672}
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13
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