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Paerschke; Almut H. Vollmer; Angelika Preisfeld (8 May 2017). "Ultrastructural and immunocytochemical investigation of paramylon combined with new 18S rDNA-based secondary structure analysis clarifies phylogenetic affiliation of Entosiphon sulcatum (Euglenida: Euglenozoa)".
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Molecular Diversity of Phagotrophic Euglenids Examined Using Single-cell Methods".
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composed of proteinaceous strips that interlock with each other, and are spirally arranged underneath the
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951:Symbiontida
797:Anisonemida
745:Neometanema
574:Chasmostoma
368:phagotrophs
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255:unicellular
251:flagellates
245:Description
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698:Anisonemia
609:Jenningsia
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395:Euglenozoa
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372:Anisonemia
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627:Peranema
557:Urceolus
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