Responses of lysosomes in the digestive cells of the common mussel, Mytilus edulis, to sex steroids and cortisol

1978 ◽  
Vol 188 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
MichaelN. Moore ◽  
DavidM. Lowe ◽  
PaulineE.M. Fieth
Keyword(s):  
Mytilus Edulis ◽  
Sex Steroids ◽  
Digestive Cells ◽  
The Common

The Red Neuronal Pigment in the Nervous System of the Mussel, Mytilus Edulis: Localization and Its Effect on Lateral Ciliary Activity with Spectral and Analytical Changes

1981 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 494-495
Author(s):  
Anthony A. Paparo ◽  
Judith A. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Mytilus Edulis ◽  
Neuronal Cell ◽  
Ciliary Activity ◽  
Neuronal Cell Bodies ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Intracellular Organelles ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cryostat Sections

The purpose of this study was to localize the red neuronal pigment in Mytilus edulis and examine its role in the control of lateral ciliary activity in the gill. The visceral ganglia (Vg) in the central nervous system show an over al red pigmentation. Most red pigments examined in squash preps and cryostat sec tions were localized in the neuronal cell bodies and proximal axon regions. Unstained cryostat sections showed highly localized patches of this pigment scattered throughout the cells in the form of dense granular masses about 5-7 um in diameter, with the individual granules ranging from 0.6-1.3 um in diame ter. Tissue stained with Gomori's method for Fe showed bright blue granular masses of about the same size and structure as previously seen in unstained cryostat sections.Thick section microanalysis (Fig.l) confirmed both the localization and presence of Fe in the nerve cell. These nerve cells of the Vg share with other pigmented photosensitive cells the common cytostructural feature of localization of absorbing molecules in intracellular organelles where they are tightly ordered in fine substructures.

scholarly journals Role of the Digestive Gland in Ink Production in Four Species of Sea Hares: An Ultrastructural Comparison

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Prince ◽  
Paul Micah Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Digestive Gland ◽  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Aplysia Californica ◽  
Digestive Cell ◽  
Digestive Cells ◽  
Sea Hare ◽  
Red Algal ◽  
The Common ◽  
Algal Chloroplast

The ultrastructure of the digestive gland of several sea hare species that produce different colored ink (Aplysia californicaproduces purple ink,A. julianawhite ink,A. parvulaboth white and purple ink, whileDolabrifera dolabriferaproduces no ink at all) was compared to determine the digestive gland’s role in the diet-derived ink production process. Rhodoplast digestive cells and their digestive vacuoles, the site of digestion of red algal chloroplast (i.e., rhodoplast) inA. californica, were present and had a similar ultrastructure in all four species. Rhodoplast digestive cell vacuoles either contained a whole rhodoplast or fragments of one or were empty. These results suggest that the inability to produce colored ink in some sea hare species is not due to either an absence of appropriate digestive machinery, that is, rhodoplast digestive cells, or an apparent failure of rhodoplast digestive cells to function. These results also propose that the digestive gland structure described herein occurred early in sea hare evolution, at least in the common ancestor to the generaAplysiaandDolabrifera. Our data, however, do not support the hypothesis that the loss of purple inking is a synapomorphy of the white-ink-producing subgenusAplysia.

scholarly journals The detectioon of genotoxin-induced DNA adducts in the common mussel Mytilus edulis

Mutagenesis ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.S. Harvey ◽  
J.M. Parry
Keyword(s):  
Mytilus Edulis ◽  
Dna Adducts ◽  
The Common

scholarly journals A Contribution towards the Life History of Parorchis acanthus Nicoll, A Trematode in the Herring Gull

1922 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 829-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie V. Lebour ◽  
Richard Elmhirst
Keyword(s):  
Intermediate Host ◽  
Mytilus Edulis ◽  
Final Host ◽  
Marine Bivalve ◽  
Herring Gull ◽  
Small Glass ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Parorchis Acanthus ◽  
Glass Aquarium

Parorchis acanthus is a Trematode described by Nicoll (1907) from the bursa Fabricii and rectum of the Herring Gull, Larus argentatus; in 1906 he first described it as Zeugorchis acanthus. Originally found at St. Andrews, it is now known to be common at Millport and also occurs in gulls from the Northumberland coast, and probably is abundant elsewhere. Nicoll found it once in the Common Gull, Larus canus. In 1907 (Lebour, 1907) one of the present writers described a cercaria occurring in rediæ from Purpura lapillus. This was named Cercaria purpurœ sp. inq., and afterwards identified with young stages of Parorchis acanthus in the Herring Gull (Lebour, 1914). It was thus shown that the first host of this Trematode is Purpura lapillus and the final host the Herring Gull, but the intermediate host was unknown. Localities for the cercaria were Loch Ryan, Wigtownshire; Budle Bay, Fenham Flats and Cullercoats in Northumberland; Robin Hood's Bay in Yorkshire; and Millport. Adults occur at St. Andrews, Northumberland coast and Millport, as already stated.The Cercaria appeared to be closely related to Echinostomum cercariæ, and it was suggested (Lebour, 1914) that the intermediate host would probably be some marine bivalve, as it is often so with Echinostomum (e.g. E. secundum in Mytilus edulis and Cardium edule, E. leptosomum in Scrobicularia tenuis). This suggestion now proves to be correct, and we are able to show that the intermediate host of Parorchis acanthus is Mytilus edulis or Cardium edule.On August 13th, 1921, at the Millport Station some larval cercariæ were noticed by Elmhirst swimming in a small glass aquarium, which contained a collection of Purpura lapillus, Cardium edule and Mytilus edulis.

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