“…A) (Tokuyasu and Scherbaum, ; Bannister, ; Michael et al, ). In both animals and Ciliates, the cores are formed by protein assembly that is controlled by proteolytic processing (Adoutte et al, ; Turkewitz et al, ; Steiner et al, ) Moreover, the core proteins in Ciliates and animals are similar in their acidity (Chilcoat et al, ), their capacity for low‐affinity calcium binding (Turkewitz et al, ; Verbsky and Turkewitz, ) and their tendency to aggregate (Gorr et al, ; Chanat and Huttner, ) within the secretory pathway (Rambourg et al, ; Rahaman et al, ) The last of these properties is likely to be a key mechanism involved in protein sorting to dense core granules and mucocysts/trichocysts, respectively (Arvan and Castle, ; Jain et al, ; Bowman et al, ). Notwithstanding these and other similarities, there is no evidence that dense core granules and mucocysts/trichocysts arose from the same ancestral organelle (Elde et al, ).…”