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SPERMATOGENESIS AND SPERM STRUCTURE OF THE NORMALLY PARTHENOGENETIC FRESHWATER SNAIL MELANOIDES TUBERCOLATA

in Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution
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ALAN N. HODGSON Department of Zoology & Entomology, Rhodes University

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JOSEPH HELLER Department of Zoology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 91904

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The freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata ranges throughout Asia and Africa, and throughout much of its range it reproduces parthenogenetically. In Israel, however, males have been found. These males produce two types of spermatozoa, euspermatozoa and paraspermatozoa. The euspermatozoa are filiform (about 230 μ m in length) with a head comprising a nucleus and conical acrosome, a mid-piece (98 μ m long) of four equal-sized mitochondria, and a tail. Unlike in other cerithiaceans, the nucleus is unusually elongate (31 μ m long × 1 μ m diameter) and the axoneme is housed within an intranuclear canal. The paraspermatozoa consists of a head of electron-dense blocks (up to 25 μ m long) which surround up to 15 axonemes, a mid-piece of elongate mitochondria and a tail tuft, as in other cerithiaceans. Structural changes during spermatogenesis resemble those described for other gastropods with dimorphic spermatozoa.

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