Author:
Bâ Cheikh Tidiane,Marchand Bernard
Abstract
Spermatozoa of Inermicapsifer guineensis and Inermicapsifer madagascariensis are filiform and tapered at both extremities. The anterior extremity exhibits an apical cone of electron-dense material and two helical ridges. The axoneme, of the 9 + "1" pattern, is surrounded over part of its length by a sheath of electron-dense material. At the posterior extremity the cytoplasm contains electron-dense material. In regions III and IV of the spermatozoa the cytoplasm is subdivided into compartments of electron-lucent material limited by irregularly spaced walls of electron-dense material. The sperm nucleus is a compact cord wound in a spiral around the axoneme. Cortical microtubules are helically arranged down the length of the spermatozoa except at the posterior extremity where they run parallel to the spermatozoon axis. In I. madagascariensis, cortical microtubules may not extend as far as the posterior extremity of the spermatozoa; the dense periaxonemal material exists in regions I to IV of the spermatozoon and the nucleus never coils more than once around the axoneme.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Animal Science and Zoology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Cited by
24 articles.
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