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Gorgoderina vitelliloba: an ultrastructural study on the development of the tegument from the metacercaria to the adult fluke

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

D. Hoole  and
J. B. Mitchell
D. Hoole
Affiliation:
Sunderland Polytechnic, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
J. B. Mitchell
Affiliation:
Sunderland Polytechnic, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
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Summary

The tegument of the metacercaria of Gorgoderina vitelliloba contains S1, S2, S3 and S4 secretory bodies. Between the parenchymal cells 2 types of tegumental cyton occur. Type 1 contains S1 and S3 secretory bodies, whilst S2 and S4 bodies are limited to Type 2. Type 1 cytons and S1 secretory bodies disappear at excystment. Post-metacercariae contain a third type of tegumental cyton in which a new secretory body, S5, occurs. This cyton type disintegrates 1–5 days after infection. The maintenance and development of the outer anucleate layer after this period is the responsibility of Type 2 cytons. Type 2 cytons and S2 and S4 secretory bodies have also been found within the cercarial body. When juvenile flukes migrate from the kidney to the bladder of their frog definitive host 21 days after infection, the outer anucleate layer increases in electron density. Within the bladder, however, the tegument of the adult fluke appears normal. The distribution of mitochondria within the outer anucleate layer changes during the fluke's migration. The mitochondria, which have a random distribution in the metacercaria, are located adjacent to the outer and basal plasmalemmas in the early kidney stages. In late kidney stages and bladder stages mitochondria occur only against the former membrane. The mitochondria increase in size in the adult fluke.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 86 , Issue 2 , April 1983 , pp. 323 - 333
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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