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The ecsoma in Hemiuridae (Digenea: Hemiuroidea): tegumental structure and function in the mesocercaria and the metacercaria of Lecithochirium furcolabiatum (Jones, 1933) Dawes, 1947

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

B. F. Matthews  and
R. A. Matthews
B. F. Matthews
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Plymouth Polytechnic, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, UK
R. A. Matthews
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Plymouth Polytechnic, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, UK
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Abstract

Ultrastructural, histochemical and autoradiographical techniques have been used to investigate the development and function of the tegument of both somal and ecsomal body regions in the hemiurid Lecithochirum furcolabiatum. The terms mesocercaria and metacercaria are here adopted for those stages in the copepod second and fish third intermediate hosts respectively on the basis of morphology and on analogy with the Strigeidae. Mesocercariae were obtained by experimental infection of the harpacticoid copepod Tigriopus brevicornis with the cystophorous cercariae (syn. Cercaria vaullegeardi), whilst metacercariae were removed from the body cavities of naturally-infected rockpool teleosts including Gobius paganellus and Blennius pholis. Observations on the mesocercaria show the origin of the ecsoma from the distal half of the excretory vesicle, which at 21 days post-infection is capable of eversion through the terminal pore. The nucleated microrugous surface layer of the ecsoma at this stage is modified or replaced in the metacercaria by anucleate syncytial tegument similar to that of the adult organ. The metacercarial stage is also associated with the more advanced development of the somal tegument. The two stages differ in metabolic activity, the somal tegument of only the metacercaria resembling that of the adult in acid phosphatase distribution. In the mesocercaria the ecsomal tegument showed the strongest uptake of 3H-tyrosine; absorption of the latter was not detected in the metacercaria. 3H-glucose uptake was restricted to the intestinal caeca of both stages.

Keywords

Lecithochirium furcolabiatumHemiuridaeecsomategumentultrastructuremesocercariaemetacercariae
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 62 , Issue 4 , December 1988 , pp. 317 - 330
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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