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Development in vitro of the metacercaria of Bucephaloides gracilescens (Trematoda: Bucephalidae)
Authors:DW Halton  BR Johnston
Institution:Department of Zoology, The Queen''s University, Belfast BT7 INN, U.K.
Abstract:The development of Bucephaloides gracilescens metacercariae was studied using a range of cultivation conditions. The most rapid development occurred at 18°C in a medium containing NCTC 135 supplemented with 25% chicken serum, 25% hen egg yolk and 25% hen egg albumen, with a gas phase of air. Under these conditions, shell-protein synthesis was triggered by day 3 in culture; secondary oocytes were apparent in the ovary by day 10; and egg production began by day 14. Survival of worms in media containing chicken serum was twice as long as that achieved with either whiting or angler fish serum. The ingestion of yolk (feeding) appeared to be a necessary prerequisite to development and egg production. The presence of yolk in the culture medium greatly increased the amount of 3H-thymidine incorporated by the reproductive system of freshly excysted metacercariae but had little effect on the uptake and incorporation of tyrosine. The eggs produced in vitro failed to embryonale and were abnormal in appearance, being non-operculate with irregularly thickened shells.
Keywords:Trematoda  development  spermatogenesis  oogenesis  vitellogenesis  egg production  thymidine incorporation  tyrosine incorporation
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