Paudicus captus
A 1μm parasitic Synaplot living in Kokytic Ocean. Lacking the mycelial stage of other Synaplots, this organism lives entirely in the zoospore stage. It has a cell wall, ribosomes, and DNA loose in the cytoplasm. P. captus produce a spicule of crystalline calcium carbonate at the opposite end of the cell from the flagella. The spicule is used to pierce the membrane of Retus duoformus’ net cells and enter the cytoplasm. Once inside the cytoplasm the spicule will be used to pierce the nucleus and phagocytize the DNA. It will produce a copy of its own DNA and release it into the nucleus. After the P. captus DNA is implanted the cell will force its way back out of the nucleus and R. duoformus net cell with its spicule to find a new host.
The parasitized R. duoformus will repair the ruptures in its membranes through a process of exocytosis. If the cell does not lyse from the damages it will read the DNA in its nucleus and begin to produce new P. captus cells at a regular interval of approximately 12 hours.It produces new P. captus cells through a form of mitosis wherein it copies the DNA and packages it in a smaller cell that splits from it.
