Fertilization,syngamy, and early embryonic development in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus (De Geer) |
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Authors: | Sato Motoaki Tanaka-Sato Hikaru |
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Institution: | Biology Laboratory, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, 069-8501, Japan. m-sato@rakuno.ac.jp |
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Abstract: | Fertilization and early embryonic mitoses of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus were examined by fluorescence staining of whole-mount as well as squash preparations. Egg meiosis occurs near the ventral surface of the egg, while sperm transforms into a sperm pronucleus in the cytoplasmic island on the dorsal side. After meiosis, the egg pronucleus moves across the egg toward the sperm pronucleus in the island, where union of these nuclei occurs. The first cleavage mitosis is gonomeric, as in insects such as Pyrrhocoris, Drosophila, and Bombyx. After the third cleavage the synchrony of nuclear division is lost and the dividing nuclei are distributed all over the egg by 12 h after deposition. |
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Keywords: | cricket early development fertilization syngamy gonomery |
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