"Hypermastigia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A class of endosymbiont EUKARYOTES, in the group PARABASALIDEA, that are obligate mutualists in the digestive tracts of wood-eating insects. Hypermastigotes produce CELLULASE that breaks down the cellulose in wood so that insects can metabolize it.
| Descriptor ID |
D056952
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.630.399
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