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Title: Spermiogenesis and spermatozoon ultrastructure of the bothriocephalidean cestode Clestobothrium crassiceps (Rudolphi, 1819), a parasite of the teleost fish Merluccius merluccius (Gadiformes: Merlucciidae)
Author: Marigo, Adji Mama
Delgado Sureda, Eulàlia
Torres Martínez, Jordi
Bâ, Cheikh Tidiane
Miquel Colomé, Jordi
Keywords: Espermatogènesi
Espermatozoides
Ultraestructura (Biologia)
Cestodes
Parasitologia
Gadiformes
Spermatogenesis
Spermatozoa
Ultrastructure (Biology)
Tapeworms
Parasitology
Gadiformes
Issue Date: Jan-2012
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Abstract: Spermiogenesis and the ultrastructure of the spermatozoon of the bothriocephalidean cestode Clestobothrium crassiceps (Rudolphi, 1819), a parasite of the teleost fish Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758), have been studied by means of transmission electron microscopy. Spermiogenesis involves firstly the formation of a differentiation zone. It is characterized by the presence of two centrioles associated with striated rootlets, an intercentriolar body and an electron-dense material in the apical region of this zone. Later, two flagella develop from the centrioles, growing orthogonally in relation to the median cytoplasmic process. Flagella then undergo a rotation of 90° until they become parallel to the median cytoplasmic process, followed by the proximodistal fusion of the flagella with the median cytoplasmic process. The nucleus elongates and afterwards it migrates along the spermatid body. Spermiogenesis finishes with the appearance of the apical cone surrounded by the single helical crested body at the base of the spermatid. Finally, the narrowing of the ring of arched membranes detaches the fully formed spermatozoon. The mature spermatozoon of C. crassiceps is filiform and contains two axonemes of the 9 + '1' trepaxonematan pattern, a parallel nucleus, parallel cortical microtubules, and electron-dense granules of glycogen. The anterior extremity of the gamete exhibits a short electron-dense apical cone and one crested body, which turns once around the sperm cell. The first axoneme is surrounded by a ring of thick cortical microtubules that persist until the appearance of the second axoneme. Later, these thick cortical microtubules disappear and thus, the mature spermatozoon exhibits two bundles of thin cortical microtubules. The posterior extremity of the male gamete presents only the nucleus. Results are discussed and compared particularly with the available ultrastructural data on the former 'pseudophyllideans'. Two differences can be established between spermatozoa of Bothriocephalidea and Diphyllobothriidea, the type of spermatozoon (II vs I) and the presence/absence of the ring of cortical microtubules.
Note: Versió postprint del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-011-2446-9
It is part of: Parasitology Research, 2012, vol. 110, num. 1, p. 19-30
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/43488
Related resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-011-2446-9
ISSN: 0932-0113
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