Junctional relationships between germinal cells and sustentacular cells in the testes of a palaemonid shrimp |
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Authors: | William J Dougherty Paul A Sandifer |
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Institution: | Department of Anatomy, Medical University of South Carolina, and Marine Resources Research Institute, South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
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Abstract: | Testes of the palaemonid shrimp Macrobrachium rosenbergii were prepared for study in the light, scanning and transmission electron microscopes and shown to be composed of solid, convoluted cords of tissue composed of two major sets of cells, spermatogenic and sustentacular cells. Among the spermatogenic cells, preleptotene spermatocytes and encysted spermatozoa were of most frequent occurrence. The sustentacular cells sent long, cytoplasmic extensions ramifying between and around tightly packed spermatocytes of the seminiferous cords and separated the spermatocytes from the basal lamina which surrounded the cords. Spermatocytes formed desmosome-like and short gap junctions with one another, while sustentacular cells formed intermediate-like junctions and gap junctions with spermatocytes. No special junctions between one sustentacular cell and another were encountered in the present study. |
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Keywords: | spermatogenesis crustacea junctions sustentacular cell |
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