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Parasite
Volume 20, 2013
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Article Number | 28 | |
Number of page(s) | 15 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2013028 | |
Published online | 29 August 2013 |
Research Article
Spermatological characteristics of Pleurogenidae (Digenea) inferred from the ultrastructural study of Pleurogenes claviger, Pleurogenoides medians and Prosotocus confusus
Caractéristiques spermatologiques des Pleurogenidae (Digenea) déduites de l’étude ultrastructurale de Pleurogenes claviger, Pleurogenoides medians et Prosotocus confusus
1
Laboratori de Parasitologia, Departament de Microbiologia i Parasitologia Sanitàries, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Joan XXIII, sn, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
2
Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
3
W. Stefański Institute of Parasitology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 51/55 Twarda Street, 00-818 Warsaw, Poland
4
Department of General Biology and Parasitology, Warsaw Medical University, 5 Chałubińskiego Street, 02-004 Warsaw, Poland
5
Brest State University, 224665 Brest, Belarus
* Corresponding author: jordimiquel@ub.edu
Received:
15
July
2013
Accepted:
16
August
2013
The present work constitutes the first ultrastructural analysis of the spermatozoon in the Pleurogenidae, with the study of three species belonging to three of the 16 genera included in this family, namely Pleurogenes claviger, Pleurogenoides medians and Prosotocus confusus. The mature spermatozoa of these pleurogenids present two axonemes of the 9+“1” trepaxonematan pattern, a nucleus, two mitochondria, two bundles of parallel cortical microtubules, external ornamentation, spine-like bodies and granules of glycogen. The organization of these characters in the sperm cell is similar in the three species. Thus, the anterior spermatozoon extremity is filiform and a continuous and submembranous layer of parallel cortical microtubules surrounds the axonemes at their anterior end. The posterior spermatozoon extremity exhibits the second axoneme and corresponds to the Cryptogonimidean type of Quilichini et al. (2010). Slight differences were noted between the spermatozoon of P. confusus and those of the two remaining species in the location of mitochondria.
Résumé
Ce travail constitue la première analyse ultrastructurale du spermatozoïde chez les Pleurogenidae, avec l’étude de trois espèces appartenant à trois des 16 genres inclus dans cette famille : Pleurogenes claviger, Pleurogenoides medians et Prosotocus confusus. Le spermatozoïde mûr de ces Pleurogenidae présente deux axonèmes du type 9+‘1’ caractéristique des Trepaxonemata, un noyau, deux mitochondries, deux champs de microtubules corticaux parallèles, des ornementations externes, des corps épineux et des granules de glycogène. L’organisation de ces caractères dans le spermatozoïde est similaire dans les trois espèces. Ainsi, l’extrémité antérieure du spermatozoïde est filiforme et les deux axonèmes sont initialement entourés par une couche continue et sous-membranaire de microtubules corticaux parallèles. L’extrémité postérieure contient le deuxième axonème et cette extrémité correspond au type Cryptogonimidae de Quilichini et al. (2010). Des légères différences existent entre le spermatozoïde de P. confusus et les deux autres espèces pour la position des mitochondries.
Key words: Pleurogenes claviger / Pleurogenoides medians / Prosotocus confusus / Spermatozoon ultrastructure / Comparative spermatology
© J. Miquel et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2013
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