冠突伪尾柱虫生理改组中口器发生及口围带调节重建的研究

在冠突伪尾柱虫生理改组过程中,口器发生分波动膜形成和口围带重建两方面独立进行。前者发生包容了旧波动膜解聚、胞咽壁新产生和左列腹棘毛解体等三个部位的毛基粒;后者重建则由口围带原基新分化的小膜、经过裁剪修饰后的旧翻领部和邻部三者拼接整合而成。新小膜的添加与旧小膜的减少二者之间的所达致的平衡保证了生理改组后口围带结构的稳定性。     

阔口尖毛虫纤毛器微管的激光共聚焦显微镜观察

应用激光扫描共聚焦显微术显示经荧光紫杉醇标记的阔口尖毛虫(Oxytricha platystoma)口围带、波动膜、额腹横棘毛、左右缘棘毛等纤毛器的微管类细胞骨架.其口围带基部含小膜托架、托架间连接微管和小膜基部微管束,波动膜基部含发达的微管骨架网,口围带和波动膜后端的汇合处含有口底托架及口后微管束,额腹横棘毛和左、右...     

伍氏游仆虫二分裂和接合生殖期间的形态发生

用改进的银浸法和黑色素法研究了伍氏游仆虫在二分裂和接合期间的形态发生。在二分裂期间前仔虫继承亲体的口围带和口侧小膜。新伸缩泡开口起源于两组额腹横棘毛原基中的第5棘毛场。看清了接合期间两次形态发生的细节。在营养期口围带上见到的小膜第三排动体的骤然变换,已被证明起源于接合时第一次形态发生的不完整的口围带后端的保留。讨论了游仆虫与其它腹毛类在形态发生上的同源问题。     

腹毛目纤毛虫鬃棘尾虫纤毛器基部微管的荧光标记

腹毛目纤毛虫鬃棘尾虫的纤毛器微管骨架由口围带、波动膜、额腹横尾棘毛、左右缘棘毛和背触毛等纤毛器微管和纤毛器基部附属微管等组成,其中口围带基部含小膜托架、小膜后微管、小膜托架微管及小膜托架间的倒"V"形微管连接;波动膜基部形成微管骨架网;额腹横棘毛和左、右缘棘毛基部含前纵微管束、后纵微管束和横微管束,但不同位置的棘毛基部微管发达程度不一样;背触毛基部以纤毛基体为中心向前、后皮层发出前纵微管和后纵微管,形成背皮层微管网.     

镰游仆虫腹面皮层细胞骨架的扫描电镜观察

应用非离子去垢剂抽提和扫描电镜样品制备、观察相结合的方法，显示了镰游仆虫的腹面皮层细胞骨架，详细描述了处于毛基体和毛基体下水平的口围带、口侧膜、额腹横棘毛骨架，以及口围带小膜托架、口侧膜托架、额腹横棘毛托架的主要附属纤维和非纤毛区表膜下皮层骨架的立体图形。作者据所述各种纤毛器托架附属纤维的定位和分布特征推测，这些附属结构可能与细胞内各种纤毛器间的联系，以及包括纤毛器运动在内的整个细胞运动的协调等有关。     

澳洲管膜虫纤毛器微管的荧光标记及其激光扫描共聚焦显微观察

应用激光扫描共聚焦显微术显示,由FLUTAX直接荧光标记的土壤腹毛类纤毛虫澳洲管膜虫(Cyrtohymena australis)细胞纤毛器微管中,口围带基部由小膜托架、小膜基部的微管束和托架间的连接微管构成,波动膜基部含微管骨架网,口围带后端与波动膜后端汇合处含口底托架;额、腹、横棘毛基部由前纵微管束、后纵微管束和横微管束构成,其横棘毛基部的前纵微管束显著发达,后纵微管束也明显可见;左缘棘毛基部含发达的前纵微管束和后纵微管束,但横微管束不明显;右缘棘毛基部含发达或较发达的横微管束和前纵微管束,但未见后纵微管束。分析表明,澳洲管膜虫纤毛器基部微管的分化特征具有种的特殊性,其中左、右缘棘毛基部微管的组成及发达程度不同在其他纤毛虫中未见报道。结合已有资料推测,游仆虫类、尾柱虫类和尖毛虫类纤毛虫中基部微管的发达程度和建构特征的不同与类群间系统演化关系有关。     

海洋纤毛虫--冠帆口虫的口器发生

对海洋盾纤目纤毛虫,冠帆口虫(Pleuronema coronatum)无性分裂期间口器的发生过程做了跟踪观察。结果显示其口器发生与已知的同属种普氏帆口虫具相似的过程。其口器发生及演化的基本模式可简述如下：老口区的三片小膜经历一个分化和移行过程;前仔虫的口侧膜来源于老口区的口侧膜;后仔虫的小膜1～3与口侧膜均来源于老的口侧膜;在口器发生过程中,前、后仔虫口侧膜的后端均形成一个相应的盾片区,其内的毛基粒在进入营养期之前被完全吸收[动物学报49(6)：829～834,2003]。     

暗尾丝虫的形态与形态发生研究

本工作采用Chatton-Lwoff氏银浸法及Wilbert氏蛋白银染色法研究了淡水纤毛虫暗尾丝虫Uronema nigricans(Muller,1786)的形态、核器、纤毛下器、银线系及详细的形态发生过程。结果显示其口器发生与已知的同属种类海洋尾丝虫具相似的过程及形式。其口器发生及演化的基本模式可表达成: 前仔虫:原口侧膜→口侧膜,盾片; 后仔虫:原口侧膜→口侧膜,第1小膜,第2小膜,盾片; 原盾片→第3小膜。 文中另外列表比较了本属与其它属的形态发生特征,并据此建立了一新科,拟梭虫科。     

海洋纤毛虫--水滴伪康纤虫的口器发生及形态学重描述

利用蛋白银法对采自山东胶州育虾池的一种海洋盾纤类纤毛虫,水滴伪康纤虫(Pseudocohnilembus persalinus Evans&Thompson,1964)的口器发生过程进行了详细的观察和研究,并对其形态学做了补足性描述。文章通过对该青岛种群发生过程的研究,认为前人所报道的种群(Evans&Thompson,1964;Pomp&Wilbert,1988)缺乏对某个发生关键时期的观察而存在着错误,即:后仔虫的小膜2明确来自老的口侧膜,而不是前人报道的盾片。此外,文章还发现该种的发生与本属另一哈氏伪康纤虫的发生过程几乎完全相同。主要细胞发生过程为:盾片最先增殖,形成初级原基区,然后分裂成前后两部分,前部分最终消失,而后部分最终形成后仔虫的小膜3。继盾片增殖之后口侧膜的锯齿状结构沿细胞纵轴方向分裂成两列,右侧的一列增殖形成次级原基区,之后分裂成前后两部分,前部分迁移形成后仔虫的口侧膜和盾片,后部分形成后仔虫的小膜1和小膜2;老口侧膜的残余部分形成前仔虫的口侧膜及盾片。老的小膜1、小膜2和小膜3则完全为前仔虫所继承。     

草丛土毛虫皮层纤毛器的微管胞器研究

本文应用FLUTAX直接荧光标记和抗α-微管蛋白抗体免疫荧光标记．显示了土壤纤毛虫草丛土毛虫（Territricha stramenticola）的皮层纤毛器微管胞器．其中纤毛器基部微管按口围带、波动膜、额腹横棘毛、左右缘棘毛、背触毛等纤毛器图式分布和定位,口围带和波动膜基部含小膜微管托架、小膜附属微管和波动膜微管骨架网;额腹横棘毛基部含前纵微管束、后纵微管束和横微管束：左、右缘棘毛基部含前纵微管束、后纵微管束、横微管束及后微管芽;背触毛基部含前纵微管束、后纵微管柬。横棘毛基部含有较发达的横微管束,缘棘毛基部含后微管芽及其横微管束的定位可能具有本种纤毛虫细胞的特异性。纤毛器微管胞器在细胞表膜下分化形成的基部微管及其微管层使细胞的运动纤毛器与强固的微管骨架结构网相联系．其微管胞器的建构可能是细胞对土壤生存环境的一种适应．是细胞运动胞器的功能活动与环境相互作用的结果。形态发生中,老口围带微管是逐步进行更新的：老棘毛微管胞器对新结构的发生和形成具有定位和物质贡献的作用．并且老结构在新结构分化和成熟期间也经历了行使相应的生理功能及逐渐退化和失去功能的过程．     

The Cortical Morphogenetic Cycle Associated with Cell Division in Diophrys Dujardin, 1841 (Ciliophora,Hypotrichida)1

Morphogenesis of cell division was investigated in Diophrys scutum, D. oligothrix, and D. appendiculata utilizing both light microscopy of living and stained specimens and SEM of preserved specimens. The cortical morphogenetic pattern of Diophrys is similar to that of other members of the family Euplotidae. The opisthe oral primordium, which develops in a subsurface pouch, forms posterior to the parental buccal cavity. The proter inherits the parental adoral zone of membranelles (AZM) apparently unchanged. The endoral membrane forms to the right of the posterior end of the AZM in the proter, in association with the developing AZM in the opisthe. The paroral cirrus and membrane develop from a single streak that first appears along the right edge of the buccal cavity in the proter to the right of the developing buccal structures of the opisthe. Frontal and transverse cirri develop in both proter and opisthe from five separate cirral primordia that form to the right of the buccal cavity. Left marginal cirri do not develop in association with the corresponding parental structures. Kinetosomes formed within the opisthe oral primordium, or kinetosomes that were part of any parental ciliary structure, do not appear to become part of any developing paroral structures, frontal, transverse, or left marginal cirri. Speciation within the genus Diophrys and evolution of the family Euplotidae as they relate to the morphogenesis of cortical structure are discussed.     

Morphogenesis in the Heterotrich Ciliate Climacostomum virens. I. Oral Development During Cell Division

The principal characteristics of stomatogenesis during division in Climacostomum virens are: (A) Kinetosomal proliferation on the left side of a variable number of kineties in the ventral somatic cortex forms an oral primordium consisting of several kinetosomal fields, which then fuse to form a single anarchic field. (B) A constant topographical relationship exists between the primordium and a well defined cortical pattern, the zone of discontinuity. (C) The anarchic field primordium divides into 2 unequal parts—to the left, the AZM primordium, and to the right, the paroral primordium, which differentiates into the apical membranelles, the peristomial field, and the buccal tube. (D) Preoral and oblique kineties of the somatic cortex form along the right side of the paroral primordium. (E) Parental oral structures are partially dedifferentiated. Stomatogenesis in C. virens and other heterotrichs is compared.     

Transmission Electron Microscopical Observations on Stomatogenesis during Metamorphosis of Eufolliculina uhligi (Ciliophora: Heterotrichida)1

Stomatogenesis during metamorphosis of the marine loricate ciliate, Eufolliculina uhligi, was observed by transmission electron microscopy. Kinetosome proliferation in the stomatogenic territory leads to the formation of an anarchic field. This separates into the left adoral and the right paroral primordia. Both primordia consist of pairs of kinetosomes. One kinetosome of a pair is associated with one transverse and two postciliary microtubules; the other has one transverse microtubule. The postciliary microtubules of the adoral kinetosomes become divergent; those of the paroral kinetosomes become convergent. The adoral kinetosomes arrange in promembranelles. Then a third row of kinetosomes is produced anteriorly to each promembranelle. This third row is short at the peristome but longer in the buccal area. The paroral kinetosomes form a stichodyad. The buccal part of the paroral primordium is resorbed during formation of the buccal cavity. Stomatogenesis ends with the development of a functioning cytostome. During this process, the postciliary microtubules of the buccal adoral membranelles elongate and become associated with cytopharyngeal vesicles. Fusion of these vesicles with the cytostome has been observed some time after the completion of the oral structures.     

Dexiotrichides pangi n. sp. (protozoa,ciliophora, scuticociliatia), a new marine ciliate from the north China sea

The morphology, infraciliature, and silverline system of a new marine scuticociliate, Dexiotrichides pangi n. sp. were investigated. The new species is characterized by: size about 45-65 x 20-25 microm in vivo with kidney-like body shape and obliquely truncated semicircle-shaped apical plate; cytostome at bottom of conspicuously depressed oral cavity, which is located at the cell equatorial level; paroral membrane extending anteriorly to membranelle 3; scutica multi-rowed; 33-38 somatic kineties; contractile vacuole near ventral side and subcaudally positioned, opening at posterior end of somatic kinety 3; one oval macronucleus and one small micronucleus; caudal cilium positioned in a small pouch; marine habitat. Based on the data obtained, an improved diagnosis for the genus Dexiotrichides is suggested: body with circular cross-section and conspicuous cilia-free apical plate; buccal cavity conspicuously depressed with cytostome located near or at equatorial level; three membranelles transversely orientated each with 2-3 rows; paroral membrane zigzaging structure, extending to about half of the length of buccal field; multi-rowed scutica; somatic kinety one strongly shortened and terminating anteriorly at posterior end of buccal field; basal bodies in equatorial region arranged usually in circular pattern, while in the anterior portion of somatic kinety 2, basal bodies characteristically in pairs and separated from the posterior part of kinety 2; one caudal cilium.     

Morphogenesis in the Heterotrich Ciliate Climacostomum virens. II. Oral Development During Regeneration1

The regeneration (RG) of the oral apparatus (OA) by Climacostomum virens (Ciliophora, Heterotrichida) is examined by estimation of the ability of live cells to ingest food as well as by Nomarski interference contrast microscopy, bright field microscopy of protargol-stained specimens, and by scanning electron microscopy. When placed in a 6% (w/v) urea solution for ～ 2 min 10 sec, populations of 10,000–100,000 cells shed a large part of their OA. In more than 90% of the cells that shed, the discarded segment is comprised of the apical membranelles, most of the adoral membranelles, and of a variable part of the buccal tube. After washing and incubation at 26°C, 50% of the cells regenerate a functional OA in 4 h 47 min, and after 5 h 26 min, 90% of the cells are able to ingest food. At any given moment during the process, 50–90% of the cells are morphologically in the same stage of RG. Seven stages (among which three are divided into two substages) of RG are defined. The process begins by the disorganization of the remnant oral structures. Concomitantly, kinetosomes multiply along the kineties of the zone of discontinuity and form the longitudinally oriented oral primordium. The latter gives rise to the adoral primordium, which rapidly produces the adoral zone of membranelles (AZM), and to the paroral primordium, which subsequently forms the apical membranelles, the buccal peristomial kineties, and the paroral kinety. Morphogenetic movements lead to incurvation of the AZM and the frontal field and to invagination of the buccal tube.     

Morphological Comparison of Diophrys scutum (Dujardin, 1841) and Diophrys peloetes n. sp. (Hypotrichida, Ciliophora)

SYNOPSIS. Diophrys scutum , collected from four locations on the New Hampshire coast, ranged from 89–195 7mu; in length, 50–105 μ in width, and 68–88 μ in buccal cavity length. The end of the adoral zone of membranelles (AZM) extends 37–59 μ (average = 45.6 μ) posteriorly in a groove on the right side of the body. Dorsally are five rows of stiff cilia. The silverline system (Chatton-Llvoff technique) appears as a fine meshwork, entirely different from that found in Euplotes or Uronychia . There are two elongate macronuclei (Feulgen reaction) and several micronuclei. Diophrys peloetes n. sp., collected from one location in Alligator Harbor. Florida, ranged from 95–134 μ in length, 62–84 μ in width. and 60–80 μ in buccal cavity length. The terminal portion of the AZM extends posteriorly in a groove 30–44 7mu; (average = 36.8 μ) on the right side of the body. Dorsally are eight rows of stiff cilia. The details of the silverline system are similar to those of D. scutum .
There is insufficient difference in ranges of body length, width. and buccal cavity length to use these characters in separating the two species. However, a statistical analysis shows that the length of the portion of the AZM on the right side of the body in D. scutum is significantly different (longer) from that of D. peloetes. Furthermore, these two species differ not only in number of dorsal ciliary rows, but also in the number of cilia per row. The degree of difference in these two species is similar to that between closely related species in other hypotrich genera, and also to that between some varieties of Paramecium aurelia.     

Comparative and functional morphology of the buccal cavity of Diplogastrina (Nematoda) and a first outline of the phylogeny of this taxon*

The Diplogastrina include about 290 species of free living nematodes. Traditional classifications of this taxon are not based upon hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships. The highly variable structures of the buccal cavity were examined in 21 species using light microscopy and SEM. The function of the stomatal structures was studied with the aid of video recordings of living worms. The morphological data were used to reconstruct a first outline of the phylogenetic relationships of the Dipolgastrina. A rhabditoid gymnostomatal tube which is longer than wide, a short stegostom and a small dorsal tooth as in Pseudodiplogasteroides belong to the stem species pattern of Diplogastrina. Diplogastrina with a ' Rhabditis '-like gymnostomatal tube feed on bacteria and small fungal spores. A short and broad gymnostom as well as a right subventral tooth which forms a functional unit with the dorsal tooth were acquired step by step in the ancestral line leading to Mononchoides and Tylopharynx . The cuticularized cheilostom was divided into six plates connected by pliable regions twice independently within the Diplogastrina. The teeth-bearing posterior part of the buccal capsule can move forewards by pushing apart the plates of the cheilostom so that the teeth can get in contact with food items that are too big to be sucked into the buccal cavity. Diplogastrina with a divided cheilostom can feed not only on bacteria, but also on larger fungal spores, ciliates or other nematodes. Tylopharynx is specialized to rip apart the cell wall of fungal hyphae with the movements of a dorsal and a subventral tooth in order to suck out the contents of the fungus. This shows that the transformation of the buccal cavity in Diplogastrina is linked with an expansion of ecological niches.     

近亲游仆虫Euplotes affinis Dujardin的毛基体水平的扫描电镜研究

应用生物化学去纤毛、去膜和扫描电镜观察相结合的方法,详细地观察了近亲游仆虫的皮层纤毛器毛基体和非纤电器的结构、模式,揭示和发现了其他游仆虫上尚未明了和未报道过的结构特征。     

Ontogeny and molecular phylogeny of a new marine ciliate genus,Heterokeronopsis g. n. (Protozoa,Ciliophora, Hypotricha), with description of a new species

The morphology and morphogenesis of a new ciliate, Heterokeronopsis pulchra g. n., sp. n., isolated from a mangrove wetland near Shenzhen, southern China, were investigated using live observation and protargol impregnation methods. Heterokeronopsis g. n. is characterized by having a bipartite adoral zone, an extremely shortened paroral membrane, frontal cirri arranged in an indistinct bicorona, a midventral complex composed of midventral pairs and midventral row(s), one left and one right marginal row, bipolar dorsal kineties, and buccal cirri; frontoterminal, transverse, and caudal cirri are absent. The single species H. pulchra sp. n. has a long, slender body that is brownish in colour, two kinds of cortical granules, one posteriorly located contractile vacuole, one buccal cirrus, usually six frontal cirri, three dorsal kineties, and one midventral row. The main morphogenetic features are: (i) the old oral apparatus is completely replaced by new structures derived from the oral primordium of the proter which originates de novo on the dorsal wall of the buccal cavity, (ii) the posteriormost frontal-midventral-transverse cirral anlage generates a midventral row, (iii) no frontoterminal and transverse cirri are formed, (iv) the anlagen for the marginal rows and the dorsal kineties are formed intrakinetally, and (v) the macronuclear nodules fuse into a mass at the middle stage. Phylogenetic analyses based on SSU rRNA gene sequence data reveal that Heterokeronopsis pulchra is a member of the family Pseudokeronopsidae and is most closely related to Nothoholosticha fasciola.