Now, amazingly, although the ‘cilia’ of Mixotricha are not cilia at all, they do appear to have basal bodies. Each spirochaetetoting bracket has at its base one basal body, shaped rather like a vitamin pill. Except that . . . well, having learned about Mixotricha’s idiosyncratic way of doing things, what would you guess those ‘basal bodies’ actually are? Yes! They too are bacteria. A
