Effect of thermal acclimation on gametogenesis of the indian freshwater leech,Poecilobdella Viridis (Blanchard) |
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Authors: | M. M. Hanumante G. K. Kulkarni |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Zoology, Marathwada University, 431004 Aurangabad, India |
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Abstract: | The effect of thermal acclimation for 15 days on the gametogenesis of Poecilobdella viridis was studied. Leeches conditioned at laboratory temperature (25.5°–27.5°C), when warm acclimated (32.0° ± 0.5° C), displayed a significant (p < 0.05) increase in the percentage of oocytes having a diameter of 12.5 µ and 15.0 µ and in the percentage of fully mature sperm clusters over the controls, whereas cold acclimation (10.0° ± 0.5°C) did not induce significant (p > 0.05) changes in the oocytes and sperm clusters. Thus it is concluded that in P. viridis temperature is of paramount importance in initiating gametogenesis. |
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Keywords: | Thermal acclimation oocytes sperm clusters gametogenesis |
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