STUDIES ON THE LIFE CYCLE AND TAXONOMY OF LIGNIERA VERRUCOSA

Miller , Charles E. (A. and M. College of Texas, College Station.) Studies on the life cycle and taxonomy of Ligniera verrucosa. Amer. Jour. Bot. 46(10): 725–729. Illus. 1959.—A study of the roots of Veronica persica Poir. and V. hederaefolia L. plants infected with Sorosphaera veronicae Schroeter revealed intracellular cystosori and zoosporangial sori of Ligniera verrucosa. The zoosporangial phase of this species has been heretofore unknown. The plasmodia of L. verrucosa occur in root hairs, and other epidermal and sub-epidermal cells of the roots. Zoosporangial and cystosoral plasmodia are indistinguishable until cleavage has started. It is thought that plasmodia produced during early infection develop into zoosporangia, while those produced later develop into resting spores. Zoospores discharged from zoosporangia may reinfect host cells developing there into zoosporangial or cystosoral plasmodia. No evidence for any sexual process was observed. The spherical zoosporangia making up a single zoosporangial sorus may be interconnected; a single discharge pore may serve to liberate zoospores from different zoosporangia. In the Plasmodiophorales the classical basis for generic distinction has been the arrangement of the resting spores in the sorus. Ligniera, because of the supposedly uncharacteristic nature of its cystosori, has been suggested as a host-variety of Sorosphaera. A comparative study of the cystosori and zoosporangia of Ligniera and Sorosphaera growing in a single host has led to the conclusion that these genera should be considered distinct.     

TAXONOMY,LIFE CYCLE,AND AUXOSPORULATION OF NITZSCHIA FONTICOLA (BACILLARIOPHYTA)1

Nitzschia fonticola (Grunow) Grunow is a member of Nitzschia sect. Lanceolatae, a group of taxonomically intractable but ecologically important and widespread diatoms. We investigated the morphology and life cycle in three clones of N. fonticola and all exhibited reduced sexuality, with pedogamous production of auxospores in unpaired gametangia. The auxospores of all clones contained tangles of striplike elements that lay outside the perizonium and were distinct from it in structure and ontogeny. We introduce a new term, incunabula, to refer to such components of the auxospore wall. Semicryptic variation was detected: one clone differed from the other two in valve size and shape, stria density, and fibula density, as well as its nuclear large subunit ribosomal DNA (LSU rDNA) sequence. The implications of reduced sexuality for the taxonomy of sect. Lanceolatae are discussed. A lectotype is designated for N. fonticola from among original material of Grunow, and the application of the name is clarified further by designating illustrations and the LSU sequence AM182191 from one of our clones as epitypes.     

浮丝藻生活史及其亚显微结构特征的研究

通过观察浮丝藻（Ｐｌａｎｋｔｏｎｅｍａ）的生活史、显微和亚显微结构、细胞分裂方式,系统地研究了其藻丝体的生物学特性。浮丝藻为单列细胞不分枝的丝状体,细胞圆柱形或椭圆形,细胞之间主要靠筒状的纤维素细胞壁相互连接。藻细胞中含叶绿素ａ、ｂ和β－胡萝卜素。电镜下,细胞壁明显分层,绝大多数是２～３层;色素体片状、周生,通常２至多条类囊体重叠;１～２个蛋白核在色素体体上,蛋白核外常有淀粉鞘,有时１至多条类囊体重叠;１～２个蛋白核在色素体上,蛋白核外常有淀粉鞘,有时１至多条类囊体侵入蛋白核内;１～２个线粒体位于色素体旁,嵴不分枝;高尔基复合体靠近细胞周边,分泌许多潴泡;细胞核１个,球形或不规则方形,常靠近细胞的一端;光镜下细胞两端的折光亮点在电镜下是１至多个泡囊,泡囊内通常含些被染色很深的物质。浮丝藻的形态学、细胞分裂和生活史观察结果都证明,浮丝藻的细胞在整个生活史中没有营养分裂,细胞分裂时母细胞产生两个有独立、完整细胞壁的似亲孢子,一系列似亲孢子通过存留的、不连续的筒状或杯状母细胞壁连接成形状上象丝状体的结构。因此,藻丝体形成和成长的过程是一个无性繁殖过程,这样的藻丝体本质上是一种假丝体。     

黑斑蛙双睾吸虫的生活史研究

本文首次研究了黑斑蛙双睾吸虫的生活史。实验证明这种单殖吸虫的生活史具有两种不同的途径,即直接外生周期和直接内生周期。前一种发育途径为一般多盘吸虫所共有,后一种发育途径仅在少数多盘吸虫中存在。这两种发育途径的交替存在与其两栖动物宿主生态学有关,并且可能反映了这类多盘吸虫的一种种群调节机制。     

鸡沙氏住白虫的生活史研究

本文报告了鸡沙氏住白虫生活史及其全程发育。经人工实验和流行区调查证明,后宽绳蚋是该虫的自然传播媒介。孢子增殖在后宽绳蚋体内、经3—4天完成发育。无性裂殖体增殖在鸡的肝、肾、心、肺、脾、脑和肠等内脏器官组织细胞内进行,经4—9天完成发育,该裂殖体有二型,即肝裂殖体和巨噬细胞裂殖体。感染9—13天后,血细胞内的配子体发育成熟。感染后第15—25天末稍血液中出现虫体的高峰期。     

甜菜多粘菌形态发育过程研究

甜菜多粘菌(Polymyxa betae)是一种专性寄生于甜菜根部的低等真菌,可作为甜菜坏死黄脉病毒(BNYVV)的传播介体并与甜菜丛根病的产生有关。对甜菜多粘菌的研究有助于了解其与所传病毒的生物学关系及其在引致甜菜丛根病中所起的作用。本文观察记录了甜菜多粘菌侵染甜菜根系及其在甜菜根细胞中的发育过程,对甜菜多粘菌各主要发育阶段进行了显微镜观察并发现在其游动孢子中有BNYVV粒体存在。根据观察结果并提出了甜菜多粘菌生活史模式图。     

鼎突多刺蚁群体结构和生活史的研究

本文报告了鼎突多刺蚁(Polyrhachis vicina Roger)的群体结构和生活史。通过研究表明,鼎突多刺蚁一年发生一代,以蚁后、雄蚁、工蚁、幼虫和卵越冬。卵和幼虫在冬天发育停滞(或极慢)。到了春天,随着气温的上升,卵和幼虫又恢复正常发育。据室内人工饲养观察,卵的发育历期为23.8±2.5天(平均温度26℃)幼虫为20.4±4.4天(26℃),工蚁蛹为19.8±5.5天(27℃)。成长工蚁在5—11月出现;8—11月,雄蚁从蛹中羽化;10月,雌蚁从蛹中羽化。雌蚁分飞交尾后,进入邻近蚁巢或回到原巢,脱翅成为蚁后。蚁巢内存在着多后现象。     

VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION AND SEXUAL LIFE CYCLE OF THE TOXIC DINOFLAGELLATE GYMNODINIUM CATENATUM FROM TASMANIA,AUSTRALIA1

The toxic, chain-forming dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum Graham was cultured from vegetative cells and benthic resting cysts isolated from estuarine waters in Tasmania, Australia. Rapidly dividing, log phase cultures formed long chains of up to 64 cells whereas stationary phase cultures were composed primarily of single cells (23-41 pm long, 27-36 pm wide). Vegetative growth (mean doubling time 3-4 days) was optimal at temperatures from 14.5-20° C, salinities of 23-34% and light irradiances of 50-300 μE·m^?2·s^?1. The sexual life cycle of G. catenatum was easily induced in a nutrient-deficient medium, provided compatible opposite mating types were combined (heterothallism). Gamete fusion produced a large (59-73 μm long, 50-59 μm wide) biconical, posteriorly biflagellate planozygote (double longitudinal flagellum) which after several days lost one longitudinal flagellum and gradually became subspherical in shape. This older planozygote stage persisted for up to two weeks before encysting into a round, brown resting cyst (42-52 μm diam; hypnozygote) with microreticulate surface ornamentation. Resting cysts germinated after a dormancy period as short as two weeks under our culture conditions, resulting in a single, posteriorly biflagellate germling cell (planomeiocyte). This divided to form a chain of two cells, which subsequently re-established a vegetative population. Implications for the bloom dynamics of this toxic dinoflagellate, a causative organism of paralytic shellfish poisoning, are discussed.     

温带臭虫生活史中各龄若虫及成虫形态的进一步描述

本通过对温带臭虫生活史中各龄若虫及成虫形态的进一步描述,首次提出臭虫度量的长度随虫龄的成熟而逐步增大。身长与体宽之比基本保持在1：1.8左右,前胸宽及前胸长之比在3：1左右;除一龄若虫外,其基本基缘毛丛的数量。每增加一龄,其毛从根数也增加一根,即n 1,这在臭虫形态分类及对臭虫的进一步研究和防治有着重要的意义。     

榆耳有性结构及生活史的研究

本文通过电镜扫描、石腊切片及用苏木精染色法和DAPI荧光染色,对榆耳子实体有性结构进行观察,证实榆耳子实体菌盖结构分三层:上表层为毛层,表面着生有排列较密集顶端游离的菌丝,它们相互粘连呈菌丝束;中间层为髓部,由较疏松而相互交织在一起的薄壁菌丝组成,菌丝间充满胶质物质;下表层为子实层,表面起伏不平,呈不规则的疣状突起,上面着生担子和囊状体,担子无隔膜棍棒形,外表有不规则的网状纹饰,其顶部着生4个瓶梗状小梗,每个小梗上着生1个椭圆形或腊肠形担孢子,大小为2.5—3.0×6.0—6.5μm,担孢子表面有不规则的网状纹饰结构。在担子间的囊状体为长圆柱形或圆锥形,表面有较密的不规则的网状纹饰。 榆耳有性生殖为异宗配合。绝大多数担孢子含一个细胞核,很少数担孢子含两个细胞核。孢子萌发为一端萌发,也有少数为两端萌发。初生菌丝单核,不能形成子实体,当两种不同遗传性的交配型的初生菌丝结合后,形成具有锁状联合结构的双核菌丝,并可发育成子实体。榆耳具有典型减数分裂过程,不具有减数分裂后核分裂行为,四个子核分别进入四个担孢子内。 在初生菌丝或次生菌丝上,均可产生间生的或顶生的厚垣孢子。经过温度、光照和紫外线照射的诱发,均未发现有其它类型的无性孢子产生。因此,榆耳菌的生活史和大多数担子     

REPLY TO COMMENT ON THE LIFE CYCLE AND TOXICITY OF PFIESTERIA PISCICIDA REVISITED1

Free‐living, marine dinoflagellates are typified by a well‐defined, haplontic life cycle with relatively few stages. The most unusual departure from this life cycle is one reported for the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida Steidinger et Burkholder. This species is alleged to have at least 24 life cycle stages including amoebae and a chrysophyte‐like cyst form ( Burkholder et al. 1992 , Burkholder and Glasgow 1997a ) not previously known in free‐living marine dinoflagellates. Litaker et al. (2002) redescribed the life cycle of P. piscicida from single‐cell isolates and found only life cycle stages typical of free‐living marine dinoflagellates. The discrepancy between these observations and the life cycle reported in the literature prompted a rigorous study to resolve the life cycle of P. piscicida. Burkholder and Glasgow (2002) took exception to this study, arguing that Litaker et al. (2002) misunderstood the life cycle of P. piscicida and ignored recent publications. We present a rebuttal of their criticisms and suggest a simple way to resolve the discrepancies in the P. piscicida life cycle.     

范尼道佛吸虫的生活史研究

范尼道佛吸虫的生活史包括毛蚴、胞蚴、尾蚴、囊蚴和成虫5个阶段。它的第一中间宿主为淡水壳菜,第二中间宿主为多种小型鲤形目和鲇形目鱼类,终末宿主是鳜。文中对这种吸虫的胞蚴、尾蚴、囊蚴和成虫的形态特征以及尾蚴的行为特征进行了观察和描述。在用人工方法成功地将尾蚴感染青后,对不同发育阶段的囊蚴在鱼体内的形态变化和器官发育进行了观察。