Woodruffia metabolica: an exception to the rule of desmodexy.
Woodruffia metabolica (Protozoa, Ciliophora) has a compound fiber on the left side of its ciliary rows composed of parallel, overlapping ribbons of kinetosome-based microtubules. No similar structure is found connecting the kinetosomes on the right side of the ciliary rows. This arrangement is in opposition to the rule of desmodexy.
D002923:Cilia; D016798:Ciliophora / Q000166:cytology*; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008870:Microtubules; D009940:Organoids; D009626:Terminology as Topic