Nassula is a genus of unicellular ciliate protists, belonging to the class Nassophorea. Like other members of the class, Nassula possesses a basket-like feeding apparatus (nasse, or cyrtos) made up of cytopharyngeal rods (nematodesmata), which are themselves composed of closely packed microtubules. Nassula use this structure to ingest filamentous ...
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(from the article `protozoan`) Other ciliates lack complex oral cilia and gather their food by other means. Nassula has a complex cytostome and cytopharynx supported by a ...
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