Electronic Resource
Oxford, UK
:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
The @journal of eukaryotic microbiology
4 (1957), S. 0
ISSN:
1550-7408
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
SUMMARY. High variability within cultures of Tritrichomonas batrachorum (from Bufo boreas halophilus, Rana catesbeiana, and Rana pipiens) casts doubt on the validity of length measurements for species designation.The morphology differs from that described previously. The axostylar capitulum is a complex structure with a preblepharoplastic portion and a perinuclear cup spreading laterally in curved membranes ending in filaments. The parabasal apparatus is Y-shaped with a very short base.Two types of amoeboid activity occur. Filopodia are used for anchorage. Their bases migrate and the filopodia may fuse and reseparate as in foraminifers. Ingestion is an amoeboid process utilizing lobopodia. Food adherent to a lobopod is invested in a food cup at the surface. Ingrowth of the lip of the food cup forms the food vacuole, or in cases of cannibalism, constricts the prey and forms a food tube pushing a vacuole before it. Repeated, this produces an alternating series of vacuoles and tubes. There is a pseudo-amoeboid degenerative process in which the flagella, withdrawn into the cytosome, continue to move and produce non-functional lobopod-like protrusions.An actual cytostome has not been observed, but there is a region of reduced staining intensity ventral to the axostylar capitulum.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.1957.tb02494.x
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