Ultrastructural aspects of spermiogenesis and synspermia in the brown spider Loxosceles intermedia (Araneae: Sicariidae)

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• 关键词：Loxosceles intermedia ; Spermiogenesis ; Synspermia ; Ultrastructure ; Cytochemistry
• 刊名：Arthropod Structure and Development
• 出版年：2007
• 期刊代码：20_14678039
• 类别：abs
• 出版时间：March 2007
• 卷：36
• 期：1
• 页码：41-51
• 文件大小：8167 K

摘要

This study reports ultrastructural and cytochemical aspects of spermiogenesis and synspermia in the brown spider Loxosceles intermedia. The roundish early spermatids are initially interconnected by cytoplasmic bridges, forming groups of four cells. During spermiogenesis, these cells pass through a series of modifications: (1) progressive nuclear condensation brings chromatin into a fibrillar arrangement; (2) the nucleus becomes long and asymmetric, with a short post-centriolar elongation; (3) formation of the long, cone-shaped acrosome and the F-actin acrosomal filament; (4) establishment of the implantation fossa and the 9 × 2 + 3 pattern flagellum, which extends away from the sperm cell body. Eventually, the entire cell undergoes twisting and folding resulting in a synspermium, containing four sperm cells in which the flagellum and nucleus are delimitated by the plasma membrane, as individualized structures, but remain involved by the fused remaining cytoplasm and plasma membrane. Reaching the vas deferens, the synspermia are surrounded by a basic glycoproteic secretion. Synspermia are considered a derivative character, probably developed in this Sicariidae species, as well as in other Haplogynae, as an adaptation to improve the reproductive strategy.