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Oxymonadida

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    Preaxostyla Oxymonadida Articulate axostyle, made of microtubules, is unique. Known only as symbionts of wood-digesting insects; some have a holdfast called a rostellum, used to attach to the insect gut. Trimastix Free-living quadriflagellates with a broad cytostome containing a posterior-directed flagellum; mitochondria are replaced by small,

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    Preaxostyla Oxymonadida Articulate axostyle, made of microtubules, is unique. Known only as symbionts of wood-digesting insects; some have a holdfast called a rostellum, used to attach to the insect gut. Trimastix Free-living quadriflagellates with a broad cytostome containing a posterior-directed flagellum; mitochondria are replaced by small,

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