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Light and Electron Microscopic Examination of the Parasitic Dinoflagellate Haplozoon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

Stephen C. Landers
Stephen C. Landers*
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Troy State University, Troy, AL36082.
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The parasitic dinoflagellate Haplozoon is found in the intestine of marine polychaetes. It is composed of a chain of cells that hang from the intestinal wall into the lumen, and releases daughter cells from the posterior end of the chain which leave the host and reinfect other polychaetes. Few studies exist in the recent literature regarding Haplozoon and it has not been reported from the Gulf Coast of the United States. This study reports the genus Haplozoon from the maldanid polychaete Axiothella mucosa in St. Andrew Bay, Florida, and examines the structure of the organism by light and electron microscopy.

Axiothella mucosa was collected in St. Andrew Bay, Florida and maintained in seawater at the Troy State University campus. Haplozoon spp. was prepared for whole mounts by smearing minced setigers of the worms onto a slide with a drop of seawater.

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Biological Structure (Cells, Tissues, Organ Systems)
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 6 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis 2000, Microscopy Society of America 58th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 34th Annual Meeting, Microscopical Society of Canada/Societe de Microscopie de Canada 27th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 13-17, 2000 , August 2000 , pp. 884 - 885
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America

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