Ventricapillus cellulose

Ventricapillus cellulose
Creator	oofle
Information
Status	Extant
Zones	B, Q
Roles	Decomposer
Classification
Genus	Ventricapillus
Species	Ventricapillus cellulose
Evolution
Date	November 8th, 2020
Ancestor	Ventricapillus frigisomnus
Descendants	No results

Ventricapillus frigisomnus was often consumed by various Aveslontids on the forest floors of Zone B due to its ubiquity. It coevolved with Radivorislontus drillus becoming a gut microbe with the capability of breaking down cellulose.

Ventricapillus cellulose lives in the guts of Radivorislontus drillus and Radivorislontus ultradrillus and uses cellulases to help break down the wood for its host. It passes from mother to offspring when V. cellulose on the mothers cloaca meet an egg as it is laid and will shift into a dormant state until the host hatches and the offspring will pick up some of the microbes as it hatches. They weather and multiply in the gut as the young Aveslontids take their first bites of wood.

They enter dormancy when their host hibernates involving flooding their cells with trehalose.

When outside of an Aveslontid’s gut, V. cellulose will decompose wood and is therefore almost ubiquitous in R. ultradrillus’ burrows and to a lesser extent R.drillus’.

V. cellulose reproduces by duplicating its genetic information and splitting in half at rates of once every 5 minutes, as long as there is wood to feed on. When there is no food present, they will not reproduce.