Publication: Spermatogenesis and distinctive mature sperm in the giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man, 1879)
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2010-08-01
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00445231
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Zoologischer Anzeiger. Vol.249, No.2 (2010), 81-94
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Jaruwan Poljaroen, Rapeepun Vanichviriyakit, Yotsawan Tinikul, Ittipon Phoungpetchara, Vichai Linthong, Wattana Weerachatyanukul, Prasert Sobhon Spermatogenesis and distinctive mature sperm in the giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man, 1879). Zoologischer Anzeiger. Vol.249, No.2 (2010), 81-94. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2010.03.002 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/28476
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Spermatogenesis and distinctive mature sperm in the giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man, 1879)
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The structures of differentiating male germ cells in the testis of the giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii, were studied by light and electron microscopy. Based on ultrastructural characteristics, the developing male germ cells are classified into 12 stages, including spermatogonia, six phases of primary spermatocytes (leptotene, zygotene, pachytene, diplotene, diakinesis and metaphase), secondary spermatocyte, three stages of spermatids and mature sperm. During spermatogenesis, the differentiating germ cells have characteristics similar to those of other invertebrates, but they exhibit some unique characteristics during spermiogenesis. In particular, an early spermatid has a round nucleus with highly condensed heterochromatin, appearing as thick interconnecting cords throughout the nucleus. In contrast to most invertebrates and vertebrates, the chromatin begins to decondense in one-half of the nucleus at the mid spermatid stage. In the late spermatid, the chromatin becomes almost entirely decondensed with only a small crescent-shaped heterochromatin patch remaining at the anterior pole of the nucleus. Mature sperm possess an everted umbrella-shaped plate with a spike covering the anterior pole of the nucleus, whose chromatin is totally decondensed as only small traces of histones H3 and H2B remain. The acrosome appears at the ruffled border of the spike plate as small sac-like structures. Few mitochondria remain in the cytoplasm at the posterior pole. © 2010 Elsevier GmbH.