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ACTA ZOOLOGICA
Volume 81, Issue 3, Pages 205-211Publisher
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-6395.2000.00050.x
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Trichogramma; Chalcidoidea; spermatozoa; ultrastructure
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Spermatozoa of the Trichogramma pretiosum and T. atopovirilia are very slender and long, about 0.35 mu m in diameter and 283 mu m and 106 mu m in length, respectively. Under light microscopy, they appear wavy along their entire length. The head contains a small acrosome which, together with the initial nuclear region is surrounded by an 'extracellular sheath', from which innumerable filaments irradiate. The nucleus is filled with homogeneous, compact chromatin and is attached to the flagellum by an electron dense centriolar adjunct, which extends anteriorly from the nuclear base. The flagellum consists of an axoneme with the 9 + 9 + 2 microtubule arrangement pitched in a long helix, as well as a pair of spiralling mitochondrial derivatives which coil around the axoneme. Based on these characteristics, the sperm of these Trichogramma are very similar to the chalcidoids studied to date and differ from non-chalcidoid Hymenoptera. They differ widely from the sperm of T. dendrolimi and T. ostriniae studied, where no helically twisted structure is shown. However, based on these results we argue that the spiralling of the flagellar structures is a synapomorphy for Trichogrammatidae as well as for Eulophidae + Eurytomidae + Pteromalidae.
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