The AZM enters the oral cavity of Euplotes where it occupies the right side of the buccal cavity while cytopharyngeal lamellae composed of microtubules arise from the left wall of the cavity. Large ve...

Food vacuoles arise from the single membrane that lines the cytopharynx. Vesicles, similar to discoidal vesicles, attach to the cytopharyngeal microtubules (lamellar clumps) that arise from the dorsal...