日本新糠虾胚胎发育及母体大小与幼体关系研究

采用组织学方法对日本新糠虾(Neomysis japonica)胚胎发育过程进行系统研究,并采用统计学方法分析了日本新糠虾母体体长与新孵幼体个数及新孵幼体体长间的相互关系.结果表明:日本新糠虾整个胚胎发育过程在育卵囊内完成,约需要8d(176-188h).其发育过程可分为3个阶段,细分为7个时期.以胚胎脱膜和蜕皮情况将胚胎发育划分:卵期、无眼幼体期和有眼幼体期3阶段,其中卵期阶段包括:受精卵期、囊胚期、原肠期和前无节幼体期;无眼幼体期阶段包括:无节幼体期和后无节幼体期;有眼幼体期阶段即为眼柄期.卵期约占整个胚胎发育时期的21.2%(40h);无眼幼体期是胚胎发育的主要时期,约占整个胚胎发育时期的48.9%(92h),其中肠、触角的分叉、心跳、眼点色素、腹部分节等都发生在此期;有眼幼体期约占整个胚胎发育时期的27.6%(52h).日本新糠虾母体体长与新孵幼体个数和新孵幼体体长间均有明显的正相关.这些结果不仅为丰富糠虾基础生物学内容提供理论资料,而且还可为糠虾的人工养殖提供参考.     

红螯螯虾胚胎发育研究Ⅰ.胚胎外部结构的形态发生

详细研究了红螯螯虾（Ｃｈｅｒａｘ ｑｕａｄｒｉｃａｒｉｎａｔｕｓ）胚胎的外部形态发育过程。在水温２８℃的条件下,整个发育过程约需３９ｄ,顺次经历卵裂期、囊胚期、原肠期、前无节幼体期、后无节幼体期、复眼色素形成期及孵化准备期。刚孵化出的幼体在形态结构上与成体相似。     

三疣梭子蟹胚胎发育过程中卵内幼体形态

三疣梭子蟹胚台发育过程中,卵内幼体共经历2期卵内无节幼体和3期卵内tao状幼体,各幼体期的主要特征表现为：第1期卵内无节幼体具小触角,大触角和大颚3对附肢,第2期卵内无节幼体除草1期的3对附肢外,2对小颚开始出现,腹部前端分节,第1期卵内tao状幼体阶段复眼先为棒状,继而变成月牙状,附肢5对,腹部分为6节,第2期卵内tao状幼体阶段2对颚足出现,复眼发育完全,卵黄蝶状,心脏开始跳动,到此阶段末期,附肢分节和分叉,第3期卵内tao状幼体阶段,各器官进一步发育,肌肉明显。     

三疣梭子蟹胚胎发育过程中肝胰腺的发生与卵黄物质利用的关系

通过对三疣梭子蟹胚胎进行连续采样和组织切片,系统研究了三疣梭子蟹胚胎发育过程中卵黄囊和肝胰腺的发生与卵黄物质利用的关系。结果表明:(1)三疣梭子蟹胚胎的卵黄岛和卵黄囊结构分别出现在原肠期和无节幼体期,胚胎从原肠期至卵内第一期溞状幼体期,始终存在卵黄岛结构,且卵黄岛中的卵黄物质不断被分解和利用. (2)卵内第二期溞状幼体后,卵黄囊分为两个区域,卵黄囊壁中出现肝胰腺细胞(柱状上皮细胞),此时肝胰腺前体已开始形成,卵黄岛开始融合. (3)卵内第三期溞状幼体阶段,卵黄囊发育成一双肝胰腺,由于肝胰腺中的卵黄物质互相融合,卵黄岛结构消失。此阶段胚胎对卵黄物质的利用加快, 卵黄物质中存在许多空泡状结构;(4)胚胎发育进入孵化前期后,肝胰腺腔内的卵黄物质极少,而初孵溞状幼体肝胰腺腔内卵黄物质已完全消失,肝胰腺为一对囊状结构。这些结果表明在三疣梭子蟹胚胎发育从原肠期到孵化前的过程中,卵黄岛和肝胰腺细胞对于卵黄物质分解和利用起着十分重要的作用。     

中华绒螯蟹不同发育时期胚胎及流产胚胎的同工酶变化

采用聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳技术,对中华绒螯蟹(Erlocheir sinensis)不同发育时期胚胎及流产胚胎的6种同工酶(乳酸脱氢酶、醇脱氢酶、苹果酸脱氢酶、酯酶、淀粉酶和过氧化物酶)进行了研究。结果表明,不同发育时期胚胎的乳酸脱氢酶、醇脱氢酶、苹果酸脱氢酶、酯酶及淀粉酶酶谱表现出一定差异。受精卵中未检测到乳酸脱氢酶同工酶活性,卵裂期和囊胚期出现4条酶带,无节幼体及溞状幼体期只有2条酶带;醇脱氢酶同工酶在中华绒螯蟹胚胎发育的各阶段均有表达,但表达的酶带数和活性有区别;在受精卵和溞状幼体期无苹果酸脱氢酶酶带显示,卵裂期酶带数最多,酶活性相对也最强,以后随着发育的进行,酶带数和酶活性都有减弱的现象;酯酶同工酶的变化较为复杂,特别是囊胚期,酯酶酶带突然全部消失;淀粉酶有两种类型：α-淀粉酶和R-淀粉酶。从受精卵发育到幼体其酶带数不增反减。不同发育阶段均检测不到过氧化物酶的活性。第二次抱卵胚胎的酶活性和酶带数低于或有别于第一次抱卵的卵裂期胚胎。流产胚胎中醇脱氢酶、乳酸脱氢酶、淀粉酶与第一次抱卵胚胎不同发育时期的酶谱相比略有变化,而苹果酸脱氢酶、酯酶酶带数迅速减少。     

IC-ELISA方法检测中国明对虾幼体卵黄蛋白含量变化

卵黄蛋白(Vitellin,Vn)是虾卵黄的主要成分,是胚胎和幼体发育的重要营养源.本实验测定和比较了中国明对虾卵及无节幼体期间Vn的含量;探讨了Vn含量的变化对无节幼体发育的影响,为对虾的幼体发育和饵料研究提供r理论依据.     

罗氏沼虾胚胎发育的研究:Ⅰ.胚胎外部结构形态发生

罗氏沼虾的胚胎发育过程可准确地分为卵裂期、囊胚期、原肠期、前无节幼体期、后无节幼体期、前状幼体期和状幼体期七个时期。在２８℃水温条件下,胚胎发育的全过程约需４８０小时。     

远海梭子蟹胚胎发育观察

在水温25～26℃、盐度30和pH 7.8～8.4条件下,观察远海梭子蟹胚胎发育全过程,其结果发现,远海梭子蟹胚胎发育经历卵裂、囊胚、原肠胚、无节幼体、后无节幼体和原溞状幼体等六个阶段.远海梭子蟹卵排出约28h开始表面卵裂,约40h,形成囊胚,约60h,预定内胚层细胞出现,并与集中在其周围的细胞一起内陷,形成原肠胚.约90h,3对附肢的无节幼体出现,约110h,5对附肢的后无节幼体出现,约140h,7对附肢的原溞状幼体出现.复眼、心跳、色素形成均在原潘状幼体阶段完成.原溞状幼体孵出时(约300h),颚足长出羽状刚毛,变为溞状幼体.整个胚胎发育过程约300h.     

罗氏沼虾胚胎发育的研究：I.胚胎外部结构形态发生

罗氏沼虾的胚胎发育过程可准确地分为卵裂期、囊胚期、原肠期、前无节幼体期、后无节幼体期、前Ｓａｏ状幼体期和Ｓａｏ状幼体期七个时期。在２８℃水温条件下,胚胎发育的全过程约需４８０小时。     

新疆北鲵人工繁殖初步研究

近年来,我们进行了新疆北鲵的室外和室内的人工驯养和繁殖研究,成功地繁殖出了新疆北鲵。研究表明,新疆北鲵繁殖期为4－6月,产卵和胚胎发育水温在8－14℃,历时40—46天,胚胎和胚后发育分为25期,各期形态特征与小鲵科其他物种基本相似,不同的是刚孵化出的幼体无平衡器,变态完成时间长,幼体在水中发育约二年左右外鳃才消失,显示该物种的独特性;对野外产卵胶囊进行人工卵化和培育成功,为发展种群数量打下了基础。     

The Morphology of the Naupliar Stages of Sacculina carcini(Crustacea: Cirripedia: Rhizocephala)

A morphological study was carried out on the fournaupliar stages of Sacculina carciniusing mainly scanning electron microscopy. Frontal horns were present and throughout development the typical nauplius limbs remained simple and gnathobases were lacking. Such features are characteristic of other lecithotrophic barnacle nauplii. The presence of a vestigial ventral thoracic process was evident on the stage III nauplius and was even more prominent on the stage IV nauplius. These observations confirm that the rhizocephalan nauplius is close to the thoracican nauplius form and lend strong support for the retention of the Rhizocephala within the Cirripedia.     

Patterns in stage duration and development among marine and freshwater calanoid and cyclopoid copepods: a review of rules,physiological constraints,and evolutionary significance

Studies of development time of marine and freshwater copepods have taken separate tracks. Most studies on marine copepods report development time of each individual development stage, whereas studies on freshwater copepods report only development time, from egg to nauplius and nauplius to adult. This bias allows comparison of total development time but prevents detailed comparisons of patterns in stage-specific developmental schedules. With respect to egg to adult development time, three general relationships are known: developmental rates are dependent upon temperature and food concentration but independent of terminal body size; freshwater calanoids develop significantly slower than marine calanoids; freshwater cyclopoids develop at the same rate as marine calanoids. Two rules describe stage-specific developmental rates: the equiproportional rule and the isochronal rule. The first rule states that the duration of a given life history stage is a constant proportion of the embryonic development time; the second rule states that the time spent in each stage is the same for all stages. This review focuses on the second rule. From the 80+ published studies of copepod stage-specific developmental times, no species follows the isochronal rule strictly: Acartia spp. come closest with isochronal development from third nauplius (N3) to fourth copepodite (C4). The only pattern followed by all species is rapid development of the first and/or second naupliar stages, slow development of the second and/or third nauplius and prolonged development of the final copepodite stage. Once adulthood is reached, males are usually short-lived, but females can live for weeks to months in the laboratory. Adult longevity in the sea is, however, on the order of only a few days. The evolution of developmental patterns is discussed in the context of physiological constraints, along with consideration of possible relationships between stage-specific mortality rates and life history strategies. Physiological constraints may operate at critical bottlenecks in development (e.g. at the first feeding nauplius, N6, and the fifth copepodite stage). High mortality of eggs may explain why broadcast eggs hatch 2–3 times faster than eggs carried by females in a sac; high mortality of adults may explain why adults do not grow rather they maximize their reproductive effort by partitioning all energy for growth into egg production.     

Cell division during the development ofArtemia salina

Summary Cell division during embryonic development of the brine shrimp,Artemia salina has been studied by counting nuclei and mitotic figures. No cell division was observed during development of the encysted gastrula until about an hour before emergence of the embryo (a pre-nauplius) from the cyst, and even then only a few mitotic figures were observed. Following emergence, and during further development up to the stage II nauplius larva an increase of about 25% in the number of cells occurs. However, when the newly hatched larva is exposed to FUdR (10 g/ml) cell division is largely inhibited, but observable development nevertheless proceeds normally. Evidently all processes involved with the development of the gastrula into a stage II nauplius larva can occur with far fewer cells than normally are present.     

Phylogenetic implications of the Crustacean nauplius

The plesiomorphic mode of crustacean development is widely accepted to be via a larva called the nauplius. Extant taxa like the Cephalocarida, Branchiopoda, Ostracoda, Mystacocarida, Copepoda, Cirripedia, Ascothoracida, Facetotecta, Euphausiacea and Penaeidea hatch from an egg as a free-living nauplius. Other crustaceans show an embryonic phase of development suggestive of a naupliar organization. Several features of the nauplius larva have been proposed as diagnostic characters for the Crustacea: a median (nauplius) eye; at least three pairs of head appendages (antennules, antennae, mandibles); a posteriorly directed fold (the labrum) extending over the mouth and a cephalic (nauplius) shield. The relationship between trilobite protaspis with at least four appendages and the crustacean nauplius remains unclear, but reports of a copepod orthonauplius with four appendages are rejected. Swimming is suggested to represent the underived mode of locomotion for the crustacean nauplius, and that naupliar swimming directly results in naupliar feeding which also is underived.     

Evolution of the nauplius stage in malacostracan crustaceans*

This article gives an overview on some aspects of malacostracan development at the levels of gene expression, cell division, and shape of embryos and larvae. The various modes of development found in malacostracans are discussed in a phylogenetic and an evolutionary framework. It is suggested that the plesiomorphic condition within the Malacostraca is an embryonized egg‐nauplius which is characterised by a yolky egg, precocious development of the three anteriormost head segments, an antero‐ventrally folded caudal papilla, and a growth zone formed by rings of 19 ecto‐ and eight mesoteloblasts. Several alterations of this malacostracan ground pattern occurred concerning the arrangement and the number of teloblasts, the shape of the embryo and the timing of segmentation with respect to the naupliar segments. From their distribution within the phylogenetic tree and from their larval characteristics it is concluded that the free‐living nauplius larvae of euphausiids and dendrobranchiate decapods are secondarily evolved from ontogenies without a free‐living nauplius. Because the nauplius stage is lost in several malacostracan taxa, the concept of the nauplius as a phylotypic stage of crustaceans is refuted. In addition, the nauplius as an example of the recapitulation of ancestral characters is discussed.     

红螯光壳螯虾胚胎及仔虾发育过程中卵黄磷蛋白的ELISA检测

建立了间接竞争酶联免疫吸附反应(ELISA)方法,对红螯光壳螯虾(Cherax quadricarinatus)胚胎及仔虾发育过程中的卵黄磷蛋白含量及其亚基组分进行了研究。该方法对卵黄磷蛋白具有良好的特异性,有效检测范围为31.25~250 ng/ml。结果表明,在发育初期胚胎先降解分子量比卵黄磷蛋白大的蛋白;亚基中,分子量较大和较小的亚基都先被消耗;胚胎内卵黄磷蛋白含量总体上呈下降趋势,其中在卵裂囊胚阶段后略有上升(3.19%),至后无节幼体期卵黄磷蛋白含量达最高(4.67%),之后不断下降,到仔虾离开母体独立生活时,含量只剩下卵裂期的1/4。     

Hatching of the Anostracan Branchiopod Chirocephalus diaphanus Prévost II. The role of embryonic movements

A study on the hatching mechanism in the egg of C. diaphanus was carried out. The complete escape of the nauplius from its three membranes takes place through two distinct stages, namely the breaking stage and the hatching stage. The former seems to be strictly an osmotic phenomenon, and the latter is more likely to be caused by mechanical means. A detailed study on the embryonic movements was carried out. The possible presence of a hatching movement was discussed. The presence of spiny projections aiding in the hatching process was also demonstrated.     

Myogenesis of Malacostraca – the “egg-nauplius” concept revisited

Background

Malacostracan evolutionary history has seen multiple transformations of ontogenetic mode. For example direct development in connection with extensive brood care and development involving planktotrophic nauplius larvae, as well as intermediate forms are found throughout this taxon. This makes the Malacostraca a promising group for study of evolutionary morphological diversification and the role of heterochrony therein. One candidate heterochronic phenomenon is represented by the concept of the ‘egg-nauplius’, in which the nauplius larva, considered plesiomorphic to all Crustacea, is recapitulated as an embryonic stage.

Results

Here we present a comparative investigation of embryonic muscle differentiation in four representatives of Malacostraca: Gonodactylaceus falcatus (Stomatopoda), Neocaridina heteropoda (Decapoda), Neomysis integer (Mysida) and Parhyale hawaiensis (Amphipoda). We describe the patterns of muscle precursors in different embryonic stages to reconstruct the sequence of muscle development, until hatching of the larva or juvenile. Comparison of the developmental sequences between species reveals extensive heterochronic and heteromorphic variation. Clear anticipation of muscle differentiation in the nauplius segments, but also early formation of longitudinal trunk musculature independently of the teloblastic proliferation zone, are found to be characteristic to stomatopods and decapods, all of which share an egg-nauplius stage.

Conclusions

Our study provides a strong indication that the concept of nauplius recapitulation in Malacostraca is incomplete, because sequences of muscle tissue differentiation deviate from the chronological patterns observed in the ectoderm, on which the egg-nauplius is based. However, comparison of myogenic sequences between taxa supports the hypothesis of a zoea-like larva that was present in the last common ancestor of Eumalacostraca (Malacostraca without Leptostraca). We argue that much of the developmental sequences of larva muscle patterning were retained in the eumalacostracan lineage despite the reduction of free swimming nauplius larvae, but was severely reduced in the peracaridean clade.

     

Ontogeny of neuroendocrine centers in the eyestalk of Homarus gammarus embryos: an anatomical and hormonal approach

Summary

The ontogeny of the eyestalk neuroendocrine centers of the European lobster, Homarus gammarus, throughout embryonic development has been studied using light and electron microscopy, and the localization of specific neuroendocrine substances has been identified by immunocytochemistry. The procephalic lobes, which are the prospective eyestalks, develop progressively during embryonic development. In the nauplius stage two neuron masses are well defined. The visual structure originates from one of them and the neuroendocrine structure from the other. The four definitive optic ganglia are present at the mid-metanauplius stage and retain their appearance and location in larvae and adults. The organ of Bellonci, an internal sensory structure, appears at the mid-metanauplius stage and is mainly characterized by onion bodies. The medulla terminalis X-organ complex, an important neuroendocrine system, is present and already functional at the beginning of the embryonic metanauplius stage. Two neurohormones have been visualized immunocytochemically: the crustacean hyperglycemic hormone (CHH) and the gonad inhibiting hormone (GIH). Both neuropeptides are localized in the perikarya of neuroendocrine cells of the X-organ as well as in their tracts joining the presumptive sinus gland. However, the sinus gland has only been observed in the early larval stages just after hatching.