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MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE
Volume 69, Issue 8, Pages 636-641Publisher
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20333
Keywords
alimentary tract; Balanus amphitrite; barnacle; FMRFamide; hindgut
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In this study, the presence and distribution of FMRFamide-like immunoreactivity in the alimentary tract of barnacle Balanus amphitrite were investigated. A net of nerve fibers strongly immunoreactive to FMRFamide-like molecules was localized in the posterior midgut and hindgut. Positive varicose nerve terminals were also localized close to the circular muscle cells and, in the hindgut, close to the radial muscular fibers. Besides this nerve fibers network, one pair of contralateral ganglia was localized in the hindgut, each of them constituted by two strongly FMRFamide-labeled neurons and one nonlabeled neuron. Their immunoreactive axons directed toward the hindgut and posterior midgut suggest an involvement of FMRFamide-like substances in adult B. amphitrite gut motility. The hindgut associated ganglia of barnacles seem to correspond to the terminal abdominal ganglia of the other crustaceans. Since they are the only residual gut ganglia in the barnacle's reduced nervous system, we can hypothesize that gut motility needs a nervous system regulation partially independent of the central nervous system.
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