COLONIZATION OF THE EPINEUSTON BYCYSTODINIUM BATAVIENSE(DINOPHYCEAE): BEHAVIOR OF THE ZOOSPORE1
作者:
Peter Timpano,
Lois A. Pfiester,
期刊:
Journal of Phycology
(WILEY Available online 1985)
卷期:
Volume 21,
issue 1
页码: 56-62
ISSN:0022-3646
年代: 1985
DOI:10.1111/j.0022-3646.1985.00056.x
出版商: Blackwell Science Inc
关键词: dinoflagellate behavior;Cystodinium;Dinophyceae;epineuston;zoosporogenesis
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACTCystodinium batavienseKlebs is the first dinoflagellate observed to exhibit specialized zoospore behavior which results in colonization of the epineuston. The zoospore: (1) is strongly phototactic; (2) changes shape rapidly upon release; (3) possesses at least two types of swimming behavior, including a “stop mechanism”; and, (4) sheds its theca as the new cell wall asymmetrically elongates into the immobile vegetative stage. These features working in concert facilitate the entrance ofCystodiniuminto the epineuston. Detailed observations of zoospore morphology and analysis of its behavior are used as new characters to further delimit C.bataviense.Since vegetative morphology has proven unsatisfactory in circumscribing otherCystodiniumspecies, the study of variation in zoospore characters will help to clarify taxonomic units within the ge
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