• Extrusomes are membrane-bound structures in some eukaryotes which, under certain conditions, discharge their contents outside the cell. There are a variety...
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    free-living eukaryovorous heterotrophic biflagellates with ventral groove and extrusomes. 7 Pseudofungi False fungi Defined by molecular phylogeny, phagotrophic...
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    Meiosis in protists Gametic Zygotic Sporic Other Cyst Cytostome Fimbriae Extrusome Contractile vacuole Eyespot apparatus Pyrenoid Axostyle Mastigont system...
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    varies from flexible and contractile to rigid. Numerous mitochondria and extrusomes are also generally present. The presence of alveoli, the structure of...
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    can be denoted with the plate formula or tabulation formula. Fibrous extrusomes are also found in many forms. A transverse groove, the so-called cingulum...
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    enclosed by a cellular envelope (cortex) densely studded with spindle-shaped extrusomes called trichocysts. P. caudatum feed on bacteria and small eukaryotic...
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    semi-anoxic habitat), putative primary endosymbionts, many orange pigmented extrusomes and the absence of permanently condensed chromosomes. The heart-like cell...
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  • or more types of extrusomes occur scattered throughout the cytoplasm. One species, C. cryoporinum, presents two types of extrusomes, some of them visible...
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    forming a needle-like internal structure or axoneme. Small granules, extrusomes, that lie under the membrane of the body and axopodia capture flagellates...
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    uniform, dense cilia, which also cover a vestibule preceding the mouth. Extrusomes are characteristically in the form of spindle trichocysts, which release...
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    protist. Cryptomonads are distinguished by the presence of characteristic extrusomes called ejectosomes, which consist of two connected spiral ribbons held...
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  • Meiosis in protists Gametic Zygotic Sporic Other Cyst Cytostome Fimbriae Extrusome Contractile vacuole Eyespot apparatus Pyrenoid Axostyle Mastigont system...
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    Meiosis in protists Gametic Zygotic Sporic Other Cyst Cytostome Fimbriae Extrusome Contractile vacuole Eyespot apparatus Pyrenoid Axostyle Mastigont system...
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  • one type of extrusome which is not visible under light microscopy, in contrast to Commation cryoporinum which presents two types of extrusomes that can be...
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  • described in the literature: Cryptomonads have two types of characteristic extrusomes known as ejectosomes. Intracellular pathogens, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis...
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    a complete oral bulge (bulge located at its mouth) with dense rows of extrusomes. It possesses one elongated, horseshoe-shaped macronucleus and a contractile...
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    reticulum, m: mitochondria, p: pyrenoids, g: Golgi body, mb: muciferous body (extrusome, pv: pulsatile/contractile vacuole, sc: scales. c) r: radial and c: concentrical...
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    spherical, surrounded by several Golgi dictyosomes. They have cortical extrusomes homogenously distributed in the cell's periphery. In particular, Orciraptor...
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  • microtubular components, not conspicuous under light microscopy. Two kinds of extrusomes can occur in both the cell body and the proboscis; the largest ones are...
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  • other to form structures known as meroplasmodia. These filopodia can bear extrusomes, and are appressed to the substrate while supported in part by irregularly...
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  • present flat mitochondrial cristae and complex concentric-structured extrusomes. Their filopodia (filose, or thread-like, pseudopodia) are supported by...
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  • Golgi dictyosomes in its most anterior (anatomy) half. There are cortical extrusomes distributed homogenously across the cell periphery. Starving Viridiraptor...
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  • have several irregularly arranged microtubules and irregularly flattened extrusomes, instead of the kinetocysts seen in Heliomorpha and Tetradimorpha radiata...
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  • immobilising its prey through discharging a previously unknown type of extrusome named an ancoracyst. Genetic analysis shows that it is not closely related...
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    in ciliates they are part of the cortical complex that supports the extrusomes, the basal bodies of the cilia and the intricate cortical shell. Cavalier-Smith...
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    Meiosis in protists Gametic Zygotic Sporic Other Cyst Cytostome Fimbriae Extrusome Contractile vacuole Eyespot apparatus Pyrenoid Axostyle Mastigont system...
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  • microtubules and have a granular appearance, owing to the presence of extrusomes, but are distinct from the pseudopods of Foraminifera. They are included...
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    tubular structures like those of epixenosomes. R bodies Kappa organism Extrusome - organelles in some protists that have a similar function as epixenosomes...
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    tentacles. These are supported by microtubules and phyllae, and have toxic extrusomes called haptocysts at the tip, which they attach to prey. They then suck...
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  • disturbed, similar to a defensive extrusome. Like many euglenozoans, Bihospites contain clusters of tubular extrusomes, each about 4 μm long, positioned...
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