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Shinya Yoshikawa Chikako Nagasato Terunobu Ichimura Taizo Motomura 《Phycological Research》2003,51(2):77-82
Morphological changes and chromatin condensation of sperm nuclei were observed during spermatogenesis in the fucalean brown alga Cystoseira hakodatensis (Yendo) Fensholt. Ultrastructural studies have shown that the mature spermatozoid has an elongated and concave nucleus with condensed chromatin. The morphological changes and the chromatin condensation process during spermatogenesis was observed. Nuclear size decreased in two stages during spermatogenesis. During the first stage, spherical nuclei decreased in size as they were undergoing meiotic divisions and the subsequent mitoses within the antheridium. During the second stage, the morphological transformation from a spherical into an elongated nucleus occurred. Afterwards, chromatin condensed at the periphery in each nucleus, and chromatin‐free regions were observed in the center of the nucleus. These chromatin‐free regions in the center of nucleus were compressed by the peripheral chromatin‐condensed region. As the result, the elongated and concave nucleus of the mature sperm consisted of uniformly well‐condensed chromatin. 相似文献
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Negishi A Muraoka T Maeda T Takeuchi F Kanao T Kamimura K Sugio T 《Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry》2005,69(11):2073-2080
Growth of five strains of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans, including strain NB1-3, was inhibited completely by 50 microM of sodium tungstate (Na(2)WO(4)). When the cells of NB1-3 were incubated in 0.1 M beta-alanine-SO(4)(2-) buffer (pH 3.0) with 100 microM Na(2)WO(4) for 1 h, the amount of tungsten bound to the cells was 33 microg/mg protein. Approximately 10 times more tungsten was bound to the cells at pH 3.0 than at pH 7.0. The tungsten binding to NB1-3 cells was inhibited by oxyanions such as sodium molybdenum and ammonium vanadate. The activities of enzymes involved in elemental sulfur oxidation of NB1-3 cells such as sulfur oxidase, sulfur dioxygenase, and sulfite oxidase were strongly inhibited by Na(2)WO(4). These results indicate that tungsten binds to NB1-3 cells and inhibits the sulfur oxidation enzyme system of the cells, and as a result, inhibits cell growth. When portland cement bars supplemented with 0.075% metal nickel and with 0.075% metal nickel and 0.075% calcium tungstate were exposed to the atmosphere of a sewage treatment plant containing 28 ppm of H(2)S for 2 years, the weight loss of the portland cement bar with metal nickel and calcium tungstate was much lower than the cement bar containing 0.075% metal nickel. 相似文献
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The usefulness of a proteolytic enzyme, trypsin, in immunofluorescence microscopy was confirmed in algal ceils. Flagella of Umspora penicilliformis zoo-spores were visible using an anti-β tubulin antibody after trypsin treatment, and the cortical microtubules of vegetative cells could also be clearly detected. Interestingly, centrioles that were not detected in the control observation appeared in gametophyte cells of Acrosiphonia duriuscula and Monostroma angicava using the trypsin treatment. 相似文献
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Terunobu Ichimura 《Phycological Research》1997,45(1):47-54
Several natural populations of the Closterium ehrenbergii Meneghini ex Ralfs species complex were collected in Nepal, in October–December 1982. Water temperature and pH were also recorded. Clonal isolates from these populations were identified to one of four mating groups (H, I, J and M) by test crossing with standard mating-type strains of known mating groups. Groups H and M have smooth walled zygospores, while Groups I and J have scrobiculated zygospore walls. Several undetermined isolates were found in some population samples. In contrast to the previously reported population samples from Nepal, especially from dried soil samples, some of these populations appeared to be rather heavily loaded with mutations that are deleterious to the sexual cycle (i.e. sexual compatibility, zygospore formation and germination). By genetic analysis, a zygote maturation-defective mutation (zym) was detected. One reason for such a heavy genetic load was suggested to be that most population samples had been maintained exclusively by asexual reproduction for a long period in large lakes and nearby ponds, or left-over vegetative populations in paddy fields after other members entered into dormancy through sexual reproduction. The significance of studying such mutations at sexual gene loci is discussed in the light of speciation problems in microalgae. 相似文献
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The behavior of centrioles in zygotes and female gametes developing parthenogenetically in the anisogamous brown alga Cutieria cyiindrica Okamura was studied using electron and immunofluorescence microscopy. Two pairs of centrioles, detected using anti-centrin antibody, were observed in the vicinity of the male and female nuclei, respectively, just after plasmogamy. The fluorescence intensity of one of the two centrin foci became weak 6 h after plasmogamy and finally disappeared. It was impossible to determine whether the male- or female-derived centrioles disappeared in zygotes, because there was nothing to detect morphological differences between the two centrioles. However, a prominent anti-centrin staining focus was located at the condensed male nucleus in zygotes in which karyogamy had not occurred yet. As a result, it was considered that the maternally inherited centrioles had selectively disappeared during development in C. cylindrica. The paternal inheritance of centrioles in zygotes was also confirmed by electron microscopy. Considering previous observations from oogamous and isogamous species of brown algae, we concluded that the paternal inheriance of centrioles could be universal in the brown algae. 相似文献
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Nine representative pairs of heterothallic (=self-sterile, cross-fertile) strains of theClosterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex from the northern Kanto area in Japan have been studied under the defined standard culture conditions. Since a wall
thickening at cell apices was observed in vegetative cells of all the strains, these strains turned out to belong to the morphological
group II (Ichimura and Watanabe, 1976). The result of statistical analyses of their cell size variations corresponded well
with the result of intercrossing experiments between them. It was shown that these strains are virtually composed of three
biologically different groups which are morphologically distinct and reproductively isolated completely or at least partially
from each other. For convenience, these three groups have been designated as II-A, II-B, and II-C in the order of from smaller
to larger cell size. In intra-group crossings, a large number of zygospores were formed, and they germinated well to yield
healthy populations of their progenies in all the three groups. In inter-group crossings, no sign of sexual reproduction was
observed between Group II-A and Group II-C or Group II-B and Group II-C, and a marked decrease of zygospore formation was
observed between Group II-A and Group II-B, especially between Group II-A minus and Group II-B plus. It was concluded that
the distinctions between the three groups are biologically sound and that each represents an evolutionary unit.
This paper represents a portion of a thesis submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of Hokkaido University by the
senior author in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Science.
This study was supported by the Grants in Aid, No. 174233 & No. 034036, from the Scientic Research Fund of the Ministry of
Education, Japan. 相似文献
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T. Togashi Taizo Motomura Terunobu Ichimura Paul Alan Cox 《Sexual plant reproduction》1999,12(3):158-163
The role of phototactic behavior of gametes was tested experimentally in the slightly anisogamous marine green alga Monostroma angicava Kjellman, and the effect of phototaxis on mating efficiency was discovered. Both male and female gametes showed positive
phototaxis in response to a white light source. In contrast, they did not respond to a red light source. Their swimming velocity
did not differ between these two illuminating light sources. It was, therefore, suggested that the search ability of the gamete
itself might not vary between phototactic and non-phototactic conditions. The number of zygotes formed during the mating process
may be expressed as the product of the number of encounters between male and female gametes and the fraction of encounters
that result in sexual fusion. In this study, with high densities of male and female gametes mixed in test tubes, almost all
minor (fewer in number) gametes fused sexually within 10 min. After dilution of the gamete suspensions by half, mating efficiency
in test tubes illuminated by white light from above was higher than that in dark controls. This suggests that male and female
gametes gathered at the water surface through their positive phototaxis, thus increasing the rate of encounters. Mating efficiency
also decreased if the test tubes were illuminated from above by white light and also shaken. Since negative phototaxis is
clearly shown in planozygotes, we suggest that positive phototaxis of male and female gametes in M. angicava is an adaptive trait for increasing the rate of gametic encounters rather than for the dispersal of zygotes as previously
reported for zoospores of some marine algae.
Received: 12 February 1999 / Revision accepted: 24 May 1999 相似文献
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Two pairs of stable diploid clones were obtained as aberrant forms among F1 progeny of an intragroup (intraspecific) cross between R-11-4 (mating type +) and M-16-4b (mating type -) of Group A of Closterium ehrenbergii Menegh. Each pair was derived from the two germination products of a single zygospore, and both clones were mating type minus. The cell size range of these four diploid minus clones was considerably above that of normal (haploid) Group A clones. Chromosome counts at the second meiotic metaphase indicated that these clones were diploid with approximately 200 chromosomes, which was double the number for normal Group A clones. Diploid minus clones conjugated normally with any haploid Group A plus clones, and yielded many triploid zygospores. Triploid zygospores germinated normally as did intragroup diploid zygospores. In metaphase I preparations, only bivalents were observed except on a few occasions where some uni- and multivalents were also detected. Viability of F1 progeny from triploid zygospores (55–74%) was somewhat lower than from diploid zygospores of Japanese Group A populations (65–90%), but higher than intergroup (interspecific) hybrid zygospores from Groups A, B and H (0–12%). In addition to lower viability, some F1 progeny from triploid zygospores exhibited slow vegetative growth. Almost all pairs of F1 clones from single triploid zygospores were of opposite mating type, similar to normal diploid zygospores of the intragroup cross. Morphological variability of F1 progeny of triploid zygospores was great. The apparently normal meiosis of triploid zygospores and the high viability of F1 progeny suggested that the genome of Group A contains several sets of chromosome complements with mechanisms by which bivalents are regularly formed in the first meiotic division. 相似文献
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Sexual isolation between Groups A and B of Closterium ehrenbergii, two closely related species, was studied by a multiple-choice mating method, as well as the nochoice mating method which has been used in previous work on microalgae. Time lapse photomicrographs and the difference in cell shape and size between the two mating groups allowed identification of a given cell in the mixture as either Group A or B, even when certain morphological changes occurred during the several day culture required for sexual induction. When plus and minus mating types of Group A were mixed with those of Group B (multiplechoice mating), no intergroup hybrid zygospores were formed. However, many intragroup zygospores of either Group A or B were formed. When one plus strain of Group A was mixed with one minus strain of Group B or when one plus strain of Group B was mixed with one minus strain of Group A (no-choice mating), intergroup sexual interactions took place resulting in a small number of hybrid zygospores; however, the process took much longer than intragroup sexual interactions. It was also shown that cell size difference itself hardly affects sexual interactions between haploid and autodiploid strains of Group A. It is suggested that sexual isolation between Groups A and B would be complete in nature, although they may interact sexually in the laboratory. 相似文献