The structure and development of Lagenidium callinectes couch / by Henry Van Amerson.
| Author/creator | Van Amerson, Henry author. |
| Other author | Bland, Charles E., degree supervisor. |
| Other author | East Carolina University. Department of Biology. |
| Format | Theses and dissertations |
| Production | 1972. |
| Description | 87 leaves, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm |
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| Summary | Co-ordinated light and electron microscope observations were made, tentatively establishing the life cycle of Lagenidium callinectes. Each stage of this life cycle was studied in detail. The zoospores are typical for an oomycete, oval and biflagellate. Spore oomycete involves flagellar retraction or detachment and the formation of a cyst wall from fibrous and wall vesicles. Structures resembling polysynaptonemal complexes are present in the nucleus of encysting spores and are indicative of meiosis at this stage. Germination of the encysted spores is generally monopolar with the cytoplasm moving into the germ tube leaving the cyst empty. Wall formation in the germ tube and hyphae is accomplished by small wall vesicles. Spore development in L. callinectes occurs in a gelatinous cleavage vesicle formed at the tip of an unbranched hypha. Cytoplasm discharges from this hypha into the vesicle where a process of vacuolar fusion results in the cleavage of the sporogenic cytoplasm into zoospores. The spores are released when the vesicle ruptures. |
| Local note | Joyner-"Presented to the faculty of the Department of Biology ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in Biology." |
| General note | Presented to the faculty of the Department of Biology. |
| General note | Advisor: Charles E. Bland |
| Dissertation note | M.A. East Carolina University 1972 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-87). |
| Genre/form | Academic theses. |
| Genre/form | Academic theses. |
| Genre/form | Thèses et écrits académiques. |