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Spermiogenesis and submicroscopic morphology of spermatozoa inMyozona purpurea(Platyhelminthes, Macrostomida)

 

作者: BEATE SOPOTT-EHLERS,   ULRICH EHLERS,  

 

期刊: Invertebrate Reproduction & Development  (Taylor Available online 1998)
卷期: Volume 34, issue 2-3  

页码: 309-320

 

ISSN:0792-4259

 

年代: 1998

 

DOI:10.1080/07924259.1998.9652665

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

关键词: Spermiogenesis;spermatozoa;ultrastructure;Platyhelminthes;Macrostomida;Myozona purpurea;phylogeny

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

Within the unpaired testis, spermatogonia, spermatocytes, spermatids and spermatozoa were found. In early spermatids, mitochondria take perinuclear positions and centrioles a diplosomal arrangement. Rootlet-like striated differentiations occur in slightly more advanced stages. Then a conical cytoplasmic projection develops, supported by a single row of closely spaced microtubules. At this stage of maturation, giant Golgi stacks occur within the cytoplasm of the cytophore which is rich in different elongate structures and oval dense bodies. With progressive differentiation, the nucleus elongates and its chromatin condenses into twisted lamellae. Two centrioles, which change their diplosomal configuration and come to lie in line to each other, and rootlet-like structures remain near the tip of the median cytoplasmic outgrowth. Mitochondria start to fuse into a single long cylindrical mitochondrial rod extending beside the lengthening nucleus. Bone-shaped rods, smaller dense sticks and dense bodies migrate into the outgrowth. Spermatozoa are totally ensheathed by cortical microtubules. These tubules show different arrangements along the cell body. The thread-like nucleus extends along the cell, the first quarter excepted, whereas the single mitochondrion extends over two thirds of the cell. Two strings with linearly arranged oval dense bodies run in the median to post-median cell segment; four rows of bone-shaped rods and two rows of smaller electron-dense sticks extend from the frontal end up to the beginning of the last third of the cell. All the different longitudinal cords run in the gaps between 4 sets of microtubules. Ciliary axonemes or lateral bristles were not observed. The present findings substantiate the hypotheses, that spermatozoa in the Macrostomida are aciliate and thatMyozonatakes an isolated position within the Macrostomidae. The occurrence of two centrioles, which come to lie in line to each other and which stay in the tip of the cytoplasmic outgrowth in spermatids, may indicate that biciliate spermatozoa are characteristic for the Rhabditophora (= Macrostomorpha+Trepaxonemata) and not an evolutionary novelty of the Trepaxonemata.

 

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