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Spermatid Differentiation and Sperm Ultrastructure of the Granular Ark, Tegillarca granosa (Bivalvia: Arcidae)

  • Lee, Jung-Sick (Department of Aqualife Medicine, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Park, Jung-Jun (Department of Aqualife Medicine, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Shin, Yun-Kyung (South Sea Mariculture Research Center, NFRDI) ;
  • Jin, Young-Guk (Department of Aqualife Medicine, Chonnam National University)
  • Published : 2007.09.30
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Abstract

This study describes spermatogenesis and sperm ultrastructure of the granular ark, Tegillarca granosa using light and electron microscopy. In the active spermatogenic season, the testis comprises many spermatogenic follicles that contain germ cells in different developmental stages. Primary spermatocytes in the pachytene stage are characterized by synaptonemal complexes. The early spermatids are characterized by the appearance of several Golgi bodies, increased karyoplasmic electron density, and tubular mitochondria. The mass of proacrosomal granules consists of numerous heterogeneous granules with high electron density that are about 20 nm in diameter. From the midstage of spermiogenesis, the well-developed mitochondria in the cytoplasm aggregate posterior to the nucleus and surround the proximal and distal centrioles. The proacrosomal granules condense and form a single acrosome with a thin envelope. During late spermiogenesis, the acrosome begins to elongate becoming conical. The sperm is approximately $35.0{\mu}m$ long and consists of a head, midpiece, and tail. The head comprises a round nucleus and a conical acrosome. A micro fibrous axial rod is observed between the nucleus and acrosome. The midpiece has a calyx-like structure with five mitochondria, and the tail, which has the typical "9+2" microtubular system, originates from the distal centriole.

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