Apocrine secretion of the egg hull in oogenesis and exclusion of sperm organelles at fertilization make reproduction in Chitonida (Mollusca) unique
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Abstract
Gametogenesis in Chitonida is highly unusual, giving rise to eggs with elaborate, often spiny hulls and sperm with needle-like nuclear extensions and tiny acrosomes. My studies of oogenesis in a variety of chitonid families have revealed unique mechanisms of egg hull formation. Three-dimensional reconstruction of serial sections of oogenesis in the chitonid Acanthochitona garnoti (Blainville) confirms that the egg hull is formed largely by microapocrine secretions, rather than by exocytosis of Golgi vesicles. This novel process, detailed for the first time in Mollusca, bypasses the endomembrane system and releases compounds formed in the cytoplasm directly from the cell surface via budding of ‘microaposomes’. Fertilization is no less unusual. In virtually all Metazoa, except chitonids, the entire sperm enters the egg, and sperm mitochondria are digested. Typically, the centrosome that derives from the sperm centriole acts as a microtubule organizing centre, moving the two pronuclei together to form the zygote nucleus and later initiating cleavage of the embryo. However, in chitonids the sperm digest a minute pore in the egg hull that allows injection of DNA but blocks entry of sperm organelles, including the nuclear membrane. Serial sections of fertilized eggs of Mopalia muscosa (Gould) confirm that a membrane bag, abandoned on the egg surface, contains the sperm organelles. Thus, not only is there maternal inheritance of mitochondria and centrioles in Chitonida but also other sperm proteins normally associated with fertilization may be blocked from entering the egg.
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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