FIGURE 7 in High degree of independence in the feeding apparatus of planarian FLatworms

FIGURE 7 Feeding response of isolated complete pharynx, oral portion, and aboral portion of pharynges of (A) Dugesia sp., (B) Girardia sp., (C) Paucumara falcata. Panels no. 1 show intact pharynx, with liver tissue being transported through peristaltic movements and being expelled at the aboral end (top); panels no. 2 show oral portion of the pharynx, with liver tissue being expelled at the aboral end (top); panels no. 3 show unresponsive aboral portion of pharynx being contracted to a sphere. Abbreviations: L, liver tissue; P, pharynx; AP, aboral part of pharynx; OP, oral part of pharynx. In all figures: aboral part at the top and oral portion at the bottom; scale bars: 200 µm. Downloaded from Brill.com 06/21/2024 07:45:14PM via Open Access. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/