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Morphogenesis and morphology of Certesia quadrinucleata (Protozoa: Ciliophora) from Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2012

Xiaozhong Hu
Xiaozhong Hu*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Protozoology, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, People's Republic of China
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Correspondence should be addressed to: X. Hu, Laboratory of Protozoology, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, People's Republic of China email: xiaozhonghu@ouc.edu.cn
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Abstract

The morphogenesis and morphology of the marine benthic ciliate Certesia quadrinucleata collected from seawater in Nagasaki Mie Port, Japan, were investigated using microscopic observation of live and protargol-stained specimens. In terms of its morphology, the current isolate possesses diagnostic features of the genus and the species: a row of left marginal cirri, a prominent paroral membrane, 11 frontoventral cirri scattered in frontoventral area, five highly developed transverse cirri, four macronuclear nodules, five dorsal kineties and a caudally located contractile vacuole. Its morphogenesis belongs to the ‘Certesia’ subtype, and main events can be summarized as follow: (1) the oral primordium in the opisthe develops de novo in a subcortical pouch; (2) the old paroral membrane is completely replaced by the new one in the proter, but the parental adoral zone of membranelles is wholly inherited; (3) five streaks of cirral anlagen are formed in a primary mode for the proter and the opisthe, which gives rise to cirri in the pattern of 3:3:3:3:3 from left to right; (4) the leftmost frontoventral cirrus develops de novo on the cell surface in both dividers, and has no connection with the undulating membrane anlage; and (5) the anlagen for marginal cirri and dorsal kineties occur intrakinetally. Current observations confirm the separation of Certesiidae from other euplotids at the familial level.

Keywords

infraciliaturemorphogenesisCertesia quadrinucleataeuplotidtaxonomy
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 93 , Issue 5 , August 2013 , pp. 1203 - 1209
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2012 

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