On the role of the proventricle region in reproduction and regeneration in Typosyllis antoni (Annelida: Syllidae).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Syllids are a species rich annelid family possessing remarkable regenerative ability, which is not only the response after traumatic injury, but also a key step during the life cycle of several syllid taxa. In these animals the posterior part of the body becomes an epitoke and is later detached as a distinct unit named stolon. Such a sexual reproductive mode is named schizogamy or stolonization. The prostomium and the proventricle, a modified foregut structure, have been proposed to have a control function during this process, though the concrete mechanisms behind it have never been elucidated.

Results

By using different experimental set-ups, histology and immunohistochemistry combined with subsequent cLSM analyzes, we investigate and document the regeneration and

SUBMITTER: Weidhase M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5050598 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature