Sensilla on the palps and legs of the adult soft tick argas persicus oken (IXODOIDEA: ARGASIDAE) and their projections to the central nervous system |
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| Institution: | 1. Defence Research and Development Establishment, Jhansi Road, Gwalior-474 002, India;2. Molecular Biology Unit, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Navy Nagar, Bombay (Mumbai)-400 005, India;1. Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO, USA;2. Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA;3. Department of Pediatrics, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA;1. Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, AZ, USA;2. Plant Conservation Unit, Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa;3. Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA |
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| Abstract: | The sensory structures present on the palps and legs of adult Argas persicus Oken (Ixodoidea: Argasidae) were studied by light, scanning and transmission electron microscopy. The number, distribution, surface morphology and the fine structure of the prominent sensilla present on these appendages were determined. The palps have 2 morphologically prominent types of sensilla: one with a grooved surface of the hair and the other having a non-grooved hair. The TEM distinguishes at least 4 prominent subtypes in grooved sensilla with single or double lumina and dendrites occupying the periphery of the central lumen or distributed all over the central lumen. Amongst the sensilla with non-grooved hair-shaft, a rare type of Olfactory Mechanoreceptive (OM) sensillum was found on the palps and the first legs of A. persicus. At the base of the hair-shaft, the OM sensillum has 2 mechanosensory dendrites. The hair-shaft of the sensillum has a porous cuticle, characteristic of an olfactory sensillum. The lumen of the hair-shaft is invested with branching dendrites from 3–8 neurons, which are surrounded by 4 sheath cells. The sensilla on the legs, including those present in the Hallers organ, are of at least 3 prominent categories. (i) Single wall with un-innervated hair-shaft. (ii) Single wall, multiporous sensillum with dendrites present in the hair shaft. (iii) Double walls with spoke channels and dendrites present in the central lumen. Sensory projections from the crown of sensilla located on the distal end of the palp extend to the palpal and suboesophageal (SOG) ganglia. Projections in the SOG extend further to the contralateral side. Sensilla in the Hallers organ project to the first pedal ganglion and to the anterodorsal region of supraoesophageal ganglion. As expected, the primary sensory projections from the sensilla of the other 3 legs extend to the respective pedal ganglia. |
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