中国大口涡虫属一新种记述(大口虫目,大口虫科)

记述大口涡虫属1新种,即厦门大口涡虫Macrostomum xiamensis sp.nov..新种的主要鉴别特征是几丁质交接刺光滑、较细长,表面无几丁质瓣膜.其远端呈螺旋状弯曲,弯曲部的平面上夹角达60度,压片后的夹角达100度,螺旋部超过半圈,交接刺末端呈注射器针的末端,开口于螺旋状弯曲面的外侧.标本采自厦门市区菩陀寺的淡水荷花池塘内,水质属富营养型.所有标本保存在深圳大学生命科学学院实验室.     

中国小达氏涡虫和大变杰氏涡虫的生物学特性

对单肠目(Rhabdocoela)达氏科(Dalyelliidae)的中国小达氏涡虫(Microdalyellia sinensis)和大变杰氏涡虫(Gieysztoria macrovariata9-spinosa)进行了长期饲养与观察,了解和比较这两种涡虫的习性、繁殖、发育及组织学特点。结果表明,中国小达氏涡虫比大变杰氏涡虫反应敏捷,生殖器官的形态位置有明显区别;中国小达氏涡虫产卵周期约5 d,每期产卵10.5枚;大变杰氏涡虫产卵周期约10 d,每期产卵22.3枚;两种涡虫卵孵化期约60 h,发育成熟期9 d左右;最后探讨了卵胚非正常发育与雌雄生殖器官成熟期,以及涡虫的淡水生态学意义等问题。     

中国大口涡虫属三新种(扁形动物门,大口虫目,大口虫科)

报道中国广东地区生活于淡水的大口涡虫属3新种:即中国大口涡虫Macrostomum sinensis sp.nov.;针大口涡虫M.acus sp.nov.;钝大口涡虫M.obtusa sp.nov..对其形态特征作了详细描述,并与近似种进行了比较.所有标本保存在深圳大学生命科学学院实验室.     

双雄性交配器官大口涡虫的首次发现

大口涡虫属所有物种均为雌雄同体,具一套交配器官。作者于2015年在广东省的两处淡水环境,首次发现2个具有双雄性交配器官的大口涡虫(Macrostomum sp.)标本。通过对活体、整装片、连续组织切片的显微镜观测,发现2只标本的两套交配器官呈左右排列;每套交配器官具备完整的假储精囊、储精囊、颗粒囊与交配刺;假储精囊与储精囊内具有精子;雄孔分别为1个与2个;交配刺的结构与中国已经记录的物种都不相同。本研究对其做了较为详细的描述,并初步探讨了大口涡虫多交配器官发生的原因。     

淡水三肠目涡虫的染色体研究进展

三肠目(Tricladida)淡水亚目(Paludi-cola)属于扁形动物门涡虫纲,共分四个科:三角头涡虫科(Dugesiidae)、扁平涡虫科(Planariidae)、树枝肠涡虫科(Dendrocoe-lidae)和洞穴涡虫科(Kenkiidae)。全世界已经发现35个属387种。除洞穴科涡虫尚未     

我国的淡水涡虫

扁形动物门的代表动物是涡虫纲的三肠目淡水(三肠)亚目涡虫。这类涡虫全世界发现了近40属和近400种,它们归属于4个科,即三角头涡虫科(Dugesiidae)、扁平涡虫科(Planariidae)、洞穴涡虫科(Kenkiidae)和树枝肠涡虫科(Dendrocoelidae)。它们遍布于全世界各地的泉溪、湖沼、池塘、水井和洞穴水中。它们的分布区域极不均衡,北半球的温带、亚寒带地区较多,其中仅分布于贝加尔     

我国涡虫纲分类学的研究

我国涡虫纲分类学的研究李光鹏（黑龙江省科学院自然资源研究所哈尔滨１５００４０）关键词涡虫，涡虫纲，分类学扁形动物门涡虫纲动物生活在海洋、淡水和潮湿的土壤中。多数营自由生活，少数为共生或寄生生活。是一类种类繁多，形态、大小、色泽和栖息环境多样性的动物［...     

中国五台山多目涡虫(涡虫纲,三肠目)染色体及核型分析

利用空气干燥法对采自山西茶铺和镇海寺的五台山多目涡虫Polycelis wutaishanica Liu,1996的核型进行分析,结果表明:五台山多目涡虫体细胞有42条染色体,为2倍体,核型公式2n=2x=42 =28m 14sm,其中28条为中部着丝粒染色体, 14条为亚中部着丝粒染色体,第1对中部着丝粒染色体明显比其它染色体长。五台山多目涡虫的核型属于2C型。     

大口涡虫属中国一新纪录(扁形动物门,大口虫目)及其分类性状

报道了大口虫目大口虫科中国一新纪录种,即帆大口涡虫Macrostomum saifunicum Nasonov,1929,详细研究了该涡虫的个体发育与角质阴茎发育的关系.结果 表明:1) 帆大口涡虫角质阴茎端部结构在个体发育的第9 d 一次性成型,终身不变,是一个稳定的关键分类性状; 2) 个体发育至第20 d 后,角质阴茎长度达140 μm,第40 d后个体进入衰老期,其角质阴茎长度超过160 μm,指出角质阴茎的长度不是一个稳定的分类性状; 3) 根据作者多年的野外采集,发现北京、安徽、湖南、江西、广东均有帆大口涡虫分布,指出该物种是中国常见的分布较广的物种,并提示大口涡虫是一种在教学和科学研究方面理想的实验动物.     

东亚三角头涡虫的全年采集与培养

东亚三角头涡虫(Dugesia japonica)隶属涡虫纲(Class Turbellaria)三肠门(Order Tricladida)、三角头涡虫科(Dugesiidae),主要分布于东亚各国,是教学、科研的重要材料,但由于生态环境不断遭到破坏,许多产地的涡虫濒临绝灭,采集越来越难。1 采集笔者常在重庆缙云山的溪水及北碚城边附近的小溪沟采得东亚三角头涡虫。首先应准确的找到涡虫可能存在的流水或积水小坑环境,据观察有涡虫的环境,往往同时也有蜉     

Ultrastructure of the frontal organ in Convoluta and Macrostomum spp.: significance for models of the turbellarian archetype

Present models of turbellarian evolution depict the organism with a frontal organ — a complex of glands whose necks emerge at the anterior tip of the body — and therefore imply that this organ is homologous throughout the Turbellaria. However, comparisons of representatives of the Acoela and Macrostomida, two putatively primitive orders of the Turbellaria, show that frontal organs in these two are not similar in ultrastructure or histochemistry. The acoel Convoluta pulchra had a prominent cluster of frontal mucous glands whose necks emerged together in a frontal pore at the exact apical pole of the organism, and an array of smaller glands of at least five other types opened at the anterior end, separately from and ventral to this pore. The frontal organs (Stirndrüsen) of two species of Macrostomum on the other hand, comprised an array of discretely emerging necks of at least two gland types including one with rhabdiform (rhammite) and one with globular mucous secretion granules neither of which emerge at the apical pole. In neither species did the organ appear to be sensory. Our findings indicate a low probability of homology between the frontal glands of the Acoela and Macrostomida.     

Proof of principle for piggyBac-mediated transgenesis in the flatworm Macrostomum lignano

Regeneration-capable flatworms are informative research models to study the mechanisms of stem cell regulation, regeneration, and tissue patterning. The free-living flatworm Macrostomum lignano is currently the only flatworm where stable transgenesis is available, and as such it offers a powerful experimental platform to address questions that were previously difficult to answer. The published transgenesis approach relies on random integration of DNA constructs into the genome. Despite its efficiency, there is room and need for further improvement and diversification of transgenesis methods in M. lignano. Transposon-mediated transgenesis is an alternative approach, enabling easy mapping of the integration sites and the possibility of insertional mutagenesis studies. Here, we report for the first time that transposon-mediated transgenesis using piggyBac can be performed in M. lignano to create stable transgenic lines with single-copy transgene insertions.     

Differentiation of the body wall musculature in Macrostomum and Hoploplana (Turbellaria,Platyhelminthes)

Using the Phalloidin-Rhodamine flourescence-labelling technique for F-actin, we have studied the development of the body wall musculature in Macrostomum hystricinum marinum and in thepolyclad Hoploplana inquilina. The structure of the muscle grid in the freshly hatched Macrostomum (see also Rieger & Salvenmoser, 1991) and the young larva of Holplana served as reference systems for the embryonic development of the body wall musculature. In Macrostomum muscle fiber differentiation starts around 60% of developmental time between egg-laying and hatching, and in Hoploplana around 80% of embryonic development.In Macrostomum, early stages show TV-antenna-like arrangements of one longitudinal and several circular fibers. In Hoploplana our preliminary results show a particularly large, longitudinal fiber on either side of the body. These primary longitudinal fibers may serve as a founder cell for other longitudinal fibers and as spatial guides for the circular muscles. Similar founder cells have been reported during early muscle differentiation in leeches (Jellies & Kristan, 1988; Jellies, 1990). In Hoploplana, a special muscle system is present at the outset under the apical organ. It consists of what seems to be a spirally toranged fiber — when seen in head-on view — and of two additional fibers crossing this spiral, from the later developing posterior to the anterior lobe.TEM-studies of embryos of Macrostomum suggest that the longitudinal nerve cords represent an important guide during early differentiation of the pattern within the body wall musculature. Young stages of myoblasts can be identified along the main lateral nerve cord. Commonly, the myoblasts are seen to alternate with young neurons in their position along the nerve cord. Embryonic stages of Macrostomum hystricinum marinum were obtained from our cultures (Rieger et al., 1988). Immediately prior to fixation (Paraformaldehyde, Stephanini's fixative) the eggshells were punctured with tungsten needles. We noted some variability of developmental time for certain embryonic stages, which we cannot explain. Developmental stages of Hoploplana inquilina were collected at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA according to the procedure outlined in Boyer (1987) and Boyer (1989). They have been timed in relation to normal developmental time to an early Müller's larva at about 100 hours.     

Ontogeny of the complex sperm in the macrostomid flatworm Macrostomum lignano (Macrostomorpha,Rhabditophora)

Spermiogenesis in Macrostomum lignano (Macrostomorpha, Rhabditophora) is described using light‐ and electron microscopy of the successive stages in sperm development. Ovoid spermatids develop to highly complex, elongated sperm possessing an undulating distal (anterior) process (or “feeler”), bristles, and a proximal (posterior) brush. In particular, we present a detailed account of the morphology and ontogeny of the bristles, describing for the first time the formation of a highly specialized bristle complex consisting of several parts. This complex is ultimately reduced when sperm are mature. The implications of the development of this bristle complex on both sperm maturation and the evolution and function of the bristles are discussed. The assumed homology between bristles and flagellae questioned. J. Morphol., 2009. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.     

Development of cilia in embryos of the turbellarian Macrostomum

Electron microscopy of Macrostomum hystricinum raised in culture shows that ciliogenesis in the worm's epidermal blastomeres begins in embryos 39–41 h old with kinetosomal and de novo genesis of presumptive basal bodies, which are morphologically distinguishable from centrioles of the mitotic apparatus, and proceeds by the migration of basal bodies to the apical plasma membrane of the cells and their production there of ciliary axonemes by an age of 51–53 h when the bastomeres emerge between yolk cells on the embryo's surface. Ciliogenesis continues throughout development with the addition of cilia virtually one by one to the expanding epidermal cells' surfaces. At no time in ciliogenesis are stages seen that might show derivation of these multiciliated cells from the primitive monociliated cell type presumably present in the ancestors of the Turbellaria.     

双钩球蛛生物学特性观察

1998~2003年,作者在日照沿海松林内,对双钩球蛛(Theridion pinastri)的生物学特性进行了观察,结果表明,双钩球蛛在日照市沿海地区一年发生一代,翌年4月上旬出蛰,幼蛛5月下旬发育至成蛛,6月上旬交配,6月中旬产卵。卵期平均7.8 d,幼蛛期362.3 d,成蛛期51.3 d,雌雄比为3∶2。成蛛日食刺槐蚜(Aphis robiniae)12.1头,是多种小型害虫的重要天敌。该蛛与农药关系密切。在林内禁止使用化学农药是保护成幼蛛的关键。     

Organization and differentiation of the body-wall musculature in Macrostomum (Turbellaria,Macrostomidae)

We studied the body-wall musculature, its ECM (extracellular matrix), and the junctional complexes between muscle cells and between muscle cells and ECM in Macrostomum hystricinum marinum Rieger, 1977, using Nomarski-contrast and electron microscopy. Differentiation of these body-wall components was followed by monitoring embryonic stages at 52%, 64%, and 82% of the time between egg-laying and hatching and with study of the hatchling and adult stages. For comparison, the body-wall musculature of other macrostomidans has been examined in conventional light-histological sections.Muscles form a grid of longitudinally, diagonally, and circularly oriented fibers beneath the epidermis in M. hystricinum marinum and this orientation of cells can be found already in embryos at 64% development. Younger embryos at 52% development show no muscle differentiation. The ECM forms a net-like arrangement that apparently envelops the individual muscle cells. Characteristic knob-like thickenings of the ECM occur at the base of the epidermis. Muscle cells attach to each other, to the epidermis, and to other cell types through hemidesmosome-like junctions at thickenings of the ECM in the adult and hatchling stages; no true desmosomes exist between muscle cells. Gap junctions occur commonly between longitudinal muscles of adult specimens and between perikarya of muscle cells in embryos at 64% and 82% development.More comparative studies are needed to determine the systematic value of presence or absence of the diagonal muscle fibers in the body wall of turbellarians.