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Ultrastructural and functional aspects of the spermatheca of the African Migratory Locust Locusta migratoria migratorioides (Reiche and Fairmaire) (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
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The ultrastructure of the spermathecal epithelium of the African Migratory Locust Locusta migratoria migratorioides was investigated with the aid of transmission and scanning electron microscopic methods.Abstract:
The ultrastructure of the spermathecal epithelium of the African Migratory Locust Locusta migratoria migratorioides R. & F. (Orthoptera: Acrididae) was investigated with the aid of transmission and scanning electron microscopic methods. The unpaired spermatheca can be subdivided into a multiple coiled tube and a terminal bulb region with vestibule, small apical and extensive pre-apical diverticulum. The wall of the spermatheca consists of a chitin intima, a layer of epithelial cells with a distinct apical microvilli border and a layer of gland cells, whereby slender projections of the epithelial cells extend between the gland cells. Through extensive folding, the basal plasma membrane of the gland and epithelial cells form a huge labyrinth, which is bounded by a basal lamina. Extending into the above mentioned projections there are bundles of parallel-arrayed microtubules, which run perpendicular to the microvilli border of the epithelial cell. They end in the base region of the microvilli and in the basal labyrinth on hemidesmosomes and serve to provide a mechanically stressable anchorage for the epithelium. The gland cells show structures typical for the production of export proteins: ribosomes, rER, dictyosomes, as well as vesicles of different size and electron-density. Every gland cell contains an extracellular cavity, arising through invagination, which is coated with a microvilli border. Over an end-apparatus and a ductule joining onto it (also with chitin intima) the lumen of the extracellular cavity is connected with the spermathecal lumen. The release of secretions and other substances from the epithelium into the spermatheca lumen is as possible as the uptake of substances from the latter into the epithelium. Regional differences in the fine structure of the cuticular intima, epithelial and gland cells point to different functions of the epithelium in these regions.read more
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