期刊
ACTA ZOOLOGICA
卷 92, 期 2, 页码 109-115出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2010.00496.x
关键词
ect-aquasperm; primitive sperm; external fertilization; free spawning; deuterostome evolution
资金
- Swedish Taxonomy Initiative [dha 15/06 1.4]
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Human Frontier Science Program
- Swedish Research Council
- BBSRC
- EMBO
- Wallenberg Foundation
- Danish Natural Science Research Council [272-07-0455]
Obst, M., Nakano, H., Bourlat, S.J., Thorndyke, M.C., Telford, M.J., Nyengaard, J.R. and Funch, P. 2011. Spermatozoon ultrastructure of Xenoturbella bocki (Westblad 1949). -Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 92: 109-115. Here, we report on the sperm ultrastructure of Xenoturbella bocki (Westblad 1949), which we studied for the first time in detail using light, scanning and transmission electron microscopy. The mature spermatozoa are of the bilaterian primitive type, also called aquasperm and develop as uniflagellate sperm consisting of a round head with distinct mitochondria at the base and a 9+2 flagellum of approximately 42 mu m in length. The acrosomal complex consists of a small, round electron translucent acrosomal vesicle and a subacrosomal base. There is no separate midpiece, and the mitochondria surround the proximal and distal centriole in the posterior part of the head. The primitive structure of the spermatozoa suggests that these fertilize the egg by free spawning, probably the ancestral mode of fertilization in early bilaterians. When compared to the spermatozoa of other metazoans, we find that the arrangement of organelles in the Xenoturbella sperm shows similarities to a wide range of protostome and deuterostome taxa and does not seem to indicate any particular phylogenetic relationship.
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