Mating system and two types of gametogenesis in the fresh water diatom Ulnaria ulna (Bacillariophyta)
Sexual reproduction and mating system of the freshwater diatom Ulnaria ulna (Nitzsch) Compère were studied by using clonal cultures. Mating system of the species involves homo- and heterothallic modes of reproduction; and both male and female clones were capable of homothallic reproduction. Two type...
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| description | Sexual reproduction and mating system of the freshwater diatom Ulnaria ulna (Nitzsch) Compère were studied by using clonal cultures. Mating system of the species involves homo- and heterothallic modes of reproduction; and both male and female clones were capable of homothallic reproduction. Two types of gametogenesis corresponding to two mating types were investigated. Analysis of the crossing table, gamete morphology, and sex distribution in the progeny resulted from intraclonal reproduction provided evidences that anisogamy and two mating types were determined in U. ulna genetically; male and female clones were hetero- and homogametic correspondently. Specific active movement of male gametes caused by the formation and retraction of pseudopodia-like structures on the gamete surface was described. The absence of reproductive isolation between clones gathered from geographically distant populations suggests continuity and broad distribution of the species.
Вивчені статеве розмноження і система схрещування прісноводної діатомеї Ulnaria ulna (Nitzsch) Compère з використанням клонових культур. Система схрещування виду складається з гомо- та гетероталічних способів відтворення, причому як чоловічі, так і жіночі клони здатні відтворюватися гомоталічно. Вивчені два типи гаметогенезу, які відповідали розділенню клонів за статевою ознакою. Аналіз таблиці схрещування, морфології гамет і розподілу статі у потомстві, отриманому при внутрішньоклоновому відтворенні, служать доказом того, що анізогамія і поділ на дві статі зумовлені у U. ulna генетично; чоловічий і жіночий клони є гетеро- і гомогаметними відповідно. Описано також активний рух чоловічих статевих клітин, викликаний утворенням і втягуванням на поверхні гамет структур, подібних псевдоподіям. Відсутність репродуктивної ізоляції між клонами, зібраними з географічно віддалених популяцій, передбачає цілісність та широке розповсюджeння виду.
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UDC 582.261.1 + 581.162
Yu.A. PODUNAY, O.I. DAVIDOVICH, N.A. DAVIDOVICH
Karadag Nature Reserve of the NAS of Ukraine,
98188 Feodosiya, Crimea, Ukraine
e-mail: karadag-algae@yandex.ru
MATING SYSTEM AND TWO TYPES OF GAMETOGENESIS
IN THE FRESH WATER DIATOM ULNARIA ULNA
(BACILLARIOPHYTA)
Sexual reproduction and mating system of the freshwater diatom Ulnaria ulna (Nitzsch)
Compère were studied by using clonal cultures. Mating system of the species involves
homo- and heterothallic modes of reproduction; and both male and female clones were
capable of homothallic reproduction. Two types of gametogenesis corresponding to two
mating types were investigated. Analysis of the crossing table, gamete morphology, and sex
distribution in the progeny resulted from intraclonal reproduction provided evidences that
anisogamy and two mating types were determined in U. ulna genetically; male and female
clones were hetero- and homogametic correspondently. Specific active movement of male
gametes caused by the formation and retraction of pseudopodia-like structures on the gam-
ete surface was described. The absence of reproductive isolation between clones gathered
from geographically distant populations suggests continuity and broad distribution of the
species.
K e y w o r d s : Ulnaria ulna, mating system, sexual reproduction, gametogenesis, gametes
movement, reproductive isolation.
Introduction
Last three decades brought us numerous publications, which indicated hetero-
thallic character of mating system in many pennate diatoms (Roshchin, 1994;
Davidovich et al., 1998, 2009, 2010; Chepurnov, Mann, 2001, 2004; Chepur-
nov et al., 2004; Mann, Chepurnov, 2005; Amato et al., 2007; Poulí ková et
al., 2007; Trobajo et al., 2009; Mann, Poulí ková, 2010; Davidovich, Davido-
vich, 2011; and others). Biparental sex distribution suggests clear strategy of
breeding experiments in pair combination of clones. Surprisingly, in the be-
ginning experiments with Ulnaria ulna we received unexpected results. Signs
of auxosporulation, i.e. gametes, empty gametangial frustules, zygotes, young
and growing auxospores, etc. were found almost in all pair cross combina-
tions. However, careful investigation of the pattern of sexual reproduction
allowed us revealing two types of gametogenesis and corresponding modes of
gametes behaviour that elucidated mating system and mysterious "panmixia"
of clones in this species. The strategy of fertilization in araphid sessile diatoms
is fairly diverse. In some araphid species parental cells need to be lain down
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close to each other; just on this occasion gametes can reach the place of syn-
gamy by amoeboid movement, e.g. Licmophora C. Agardh (Chepurnov,
Mann, 2004). Male gametes in Tabularia fasciculata (C. Agardh) D. Williams
and Round and T. tabulata (C. Agardh) Snoeijs were found to be able to
move for relatively long distance; mechanism of their movement turned to be
highly unusual (Davidovich et al., 2012). Similar method of motion was re-
ported in Pseudostaurosira trainorii E.A. Morales (Sato et al., 2011). In the
present investigation we paid special attention to the strategy of fertilization,
which is realized in U. ulna.
Data on reproductive isolation are useful in the discovery of species,
species validation, or for confirming that specimens taken from different
localities belong or not belong to the same species (Mann, 2010). Some
diatoms are known to be cosmopolitan (Casteleyn et al., 2008) while some
others may represent a complex comprising cryptic or pseudo-cryptic species
(Mann et al., 2008). Morphotype U. ulna is known from around the world
that provokes questions about real distribution of this species, and how many
species are hidden under this name. Direct breeding of clones gathered from
geographically distant populations, which inhabit different river basins and
separated one from another by thousand kilometres including marine straits
may provide valuable information.
The aim of the present article was in discussing breeding system, fertiliza-
tion strategy, and means of gamete delivery to the place of syngamy in the
araphid pennate diatom U. ulna. The subject of speculation was also world-
wide distribution of the species that was examined in breeding experiments.
Objects and methods
Clonal cultures of Ulnaria ulna (Nitzsch) Compère in Jahn et al. 2001 (for-
merly, Synedra ulna (Nitzsch) Ehrenb. 1832) were derived from samples col-
lected in 2008—2012 in geographically distant places, the Dnieper River,
Kiev, Ukraine (3 clones), a spring in the south-eastern Crimea, Radostnoe,
Ukraine (11 clones), the Moskva River, Zvenigorod, Russia (3 clones), and
a small river flowing from the Roath Park Lake, Cardiff, the UK (6 clones).
Single cells were isolated under the microscope MBS-9 (Russia) with the
aid of glass micropipettes by repeated washing in 5—7 drops of culture me-
dium placed on a slide. Clones were named as Y.MMDD-X, where Y is the
last digit of the year of isolation, MM is a month, DD is a date, and X is
a short name of the clone.
Cultures were cultivated in glass Petri dishes (diam. 5—9 cm, medium
volume from 8 to 45 mL). The composition of culture medium was close to
the medium Dm (Mann, 2004). Cultures were maintained in the temperature
stabilized room at 19—21 oC under diffuse daylight from northward-directed
window. Every 4—6 days cultures were re-inoculated into fresh medium to
maintain them in exponential growth phase. Cultures were inspected daily for
signs of intraclonal sexual reproduction, general health and growth. Clones
were periodically inoculated in pairs to stimulate interclonal reproduction.
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Observations were fulfilled by using light microscopes MBS-9 (LOMO,
USSR) and Biolar PI (PZO, Poland). The last was equipped with Differential
Interference Contrast (DIC) optics and adjusted to bright-field illumination
following Keller (Fedin, Barsky, 1971). Microphotographs were taken using
a Canon Power Shot A-640 digital camera, which was used also for gamete
movement records. The cell length (apical size) was determined using an
ocular ruler calibrated against object-micrometer. Mean values are presented
as Mean ± Standard Error, N-number of measurements.
Results
Life cycle and critical cell sizes
In the natural populations, Ulnaria ulna grew either as single cells or in
clusters of cells being attached to the substratum by common mucilage pad.
In cultures, if conditions were good, rapidly growing clones formed loose
colonies on the bottom of Petri dishes. As a result of vegetative multiplication
mean length of cells maintained in clonal cultures permanently decreased
with the average rate of 5.5±0.4 m/month (N = 32).
The apical length of cultured cells on different stages of their life history
and the length of cells derived from natural populations were measured; and
their ranges are presented in Table 1. The apical length of vegetative cells in
the Crimean population varied from 11.2 to 176.0 m, with mean value 91.4±
2.4 m (N = 658), initial cells had sizes 291—422 m, mean 340.0±2.9 m
(N = 104). In Cardiff population, mean apical length was 148.0±3.2 m
(N = 104, range 62.3—235.3). In the Moskva River the cell length ranged
from 90.0—290.6 m, mean 188.0±4.6 m (N = 144).
Table 1
The apical size of cells of Ulnaria ulna in samples taken from geographically
distant natural populations
Mean and range of apical sizes of
initial cells, m Location
Sampling
period
Mean apical
size, m
Size range,
m
in natural
population
in culture
Dnieper
River
April,
2010
— — —
332.9±5.5
(304.5—359.8)
N = 10
Moskva
River
Sept.,
2011
188.0±4.6
N = 144
90.0—290.6 —
341.8±3.9
(297.6—387.5)
N = 35
Crimea April,
2010
91.4±2.4
N = 658
11.2—176.0
340.0±2.9
(290.6—422.1)
N = 104
353.9±1.25
(276.8—415.2)
N = 182
Cardiff April,
2012
148.0±3.2
N = 104
62.3—235.3 —
328.2±2.1
(304.5—359.8)
N = 45
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The largest cell was found in the natural Crimean population, not in
culture and its length was 422 m. The smallest recorded cell had the length
11 m. The length of cells entered sexual reproduction (gametangia) varied
from 62 to 162 m (in the Crimean population). The length of initial cells
weakly depended on the size of gametangia (Fig. 1), correlation coefficient
was equal to 0.27 (N = 23). There were no marked differences between the
lengths of initial cells produced by different populations.
Fig. 1. Relationship between gametangial and initial cell lengths. Gametangial cell length
was calculated as the average of mean cell sizes in a pair of clones; initial cell length was
calculated as the average length of initial cells arisen in the mixture of parental clones
Male and female gametogenesis
Each male and female gametangium yielded two gametes, which were mor-
phologically identical (spherical) in the end of gametogenesis. However, early
stages of male and female gametogenesis differed significantly. In the male
gametangium, protoplast divided into two equal parts in transapical plan
(Photo 1, a, b). Rearrangement of gametes was not observed. During early
stages male gametes were rod-shaped with rounded ends, resembled "frank-
furters", which moved to some extend independently along the apical axis in a
reciprocal manner. Later the gametes rounded, and went out one after
another from the gametangium frustule pushing its valves apart (Photo 1, d).
After leaving the gametangium, male gametes became spherical.
In contrast to male, female gametangia divided in the apical plane
(Photo 1, e). In the beginning of their development female gametes were
attached to the valves of the mother frustule, one against other (Photo 1, e, f).
Development of the two gametes in the female gametangium was not com-
pletely synchronic, very often one of the gametes developed faster, but with
time, both female gametes rounded and lost contact with valves (Photo 1, j).
After detaching from the gametangium, female gametes also get spherical
form. Usually mature female gametes lay between or near "mother's"
gametangial frustules. Sometimes copulation may occur while female gamete
was not yet detached from the valve.
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Photo 1. Male and female gametogenesis. a — the cell content of the male gametangium
divides in the transapical plan (arrowhead) giving rise to two male gametes; b — an early
stage of male gametes (arrows) partition, a gap (arrowhead) between two gametes (arrows);
female gamete (double arrow) associated with mother frustules; c, d — both male and
female gametes finally became round and detached from the gametangium valve; e—j —
female gametangium content divides in the apical plan giving rise to two gametes attached
to the gametangial thecae; with time the gametes narrow, became rounded and finally de-
tach from the thecae. Scale 20 m
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Photo 2. Auxospore formation and paedogamous copulation. b—d — different stages of
auxospore expansion; e — the initial cell (above) is prominently longer than one of the cells
of the parental clone (below); f—h — paedogamous reproduction in the female clone. Scale:
20 m (a—e), and 10 m (f—h)
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Following physical contact male and female gametes fused giving rise to
zygotes (Photo 2, a). Neither copulation tubes nor mucilage envelopes were
ever observed. The zygotes were initially spherical (Photo 2, a, lower gamete).
Approximately one to two hours later zygotes started bipolar expansion
(Photo 2, a, upper gamete; b), and from this moment they may be regarded
as auxospores. Growing auxospores had no tight contact with valves of mother
frustule and could lie between or apart from them (Photo 2, c). Elongated
auxospores were slightly curved. In contrast to some other diatoms (e.g.
Mann, 1996; Trobajo et al., 2009), the remains of zygote envelopes in the
form of "caps" at the ends of auxospores were not visible. Inside the fully
expanded auxospore, two valves were deposited successively, giving rise to the
frustule of the initial cell (Photo 2, e), which renews mitotic divisions.
Gamete movement
Gamete movement coincided with the formation of slender cytoplasmic pro-
jections on the gamete surface (Photo 3). Only male gametes were found to
form these projections. They were not permanent structures and to a certain
extent resembled pseudopodia. Pseudopodial activity could be revealed at the
early stages of gamete formation, while they were laying between the
gametangia valves, and periodically every several minutes after male gametes
escaped from the gametangium. Initially the gametes were almost ideally
spherical and immobile. After several minutes the gamete surface became ac-
tive; a few relatively short and broad lamellipodium-like projections arose,
which distorted spherical form of the gamete. With time one or two projec-
tions elongated into thin threads, while shorter and broader protrusions disap-
peared. Upon reaching the maximal length projections became flexible and
started to retract. It appeared that projections winded around the gamete cell
and the last was forced to rotate in the opposite direction, as "a ball of
thread". Finally, projections vanished completely and the cell returned to
spherical form. The cycle repeated in a few minutes.
Breeding system
For the first time sexual reproduction was detected in monoclonal culture
8.0626-D. All gametes which had been seen in this case were spherical and
motile; in all aspects of their morphology and behaviour they were similar to
male gametes which were founded later in heterothallic pairs. Intraclonal
progeny was fertile; F-1 clones could mate with each other if they were sexu-
ally compatible and readily entered interclonal reproduction with clones origi-
nated from natural populations. Sex of 4 clones randomly derived from the
first intraclonal generation of 8.0626-D was determined; and 2 of them turned
to be male and 2 female (Table 2). Both male and female clones were able to
enter intraclonal reproduction; in total a half of the clones examined (11 of
23) revealed such ability. Intraclonal reproduction was not abundant com-
pared to the interclonal one and did not always result in the formation of
viable initial cells, the process sometimes terminated at the stage of the
gamete or zygote formation (Table 2).
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Photo 3. Time sequences of the two cytoplasmic projections formation cycles (a—g and
h—l). The objects in the frames (h—l) are the same as in the Photo 1 (b—d); the male
gamete (arrows) in contrast to the female one (double arrow) can produce slender cyto-
plasmic projection on the cell surface (arrowhead), the process is accompanied by change of
the cell shape and rotation of the cell during projection retraction. Scale 10 m
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In male clones intraclonal reproduction was presumably allogamous; in
the case of female clones we observed paedogamous reproduction, where two
female gametes produced by the same gametangium fused while being at-
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tached to the valves of the mother frustule (Photo 2, f—h). Theoretically,
auto-mixis in male clones as well as allogamy in female clones are also possi-
ble, but we did not acquire direct evidences.
If clones were inoculated in pairs, signs of sexual reproduction could be
observed in two thirds of crosses (139 of 221) that gave an impression of
"panmixia". As a result, it was not possible to determine affiliation of clones
to the certain mating type by using solely data of crossing table without taking
into account other characteristics. It is worth noting that information on sex
affiliation could not be elicited if late stages of gametogenesis were investi-
gated; mature gametes were uniformly spherical. More careful investigation of
the data obtained revealed pronounced difference in the frequency of auxo-
sporulation and an ability to form viable auxospores and initial cells in differ-
ent pairs of clones (Table 2). Relative abundance of sexual cells (gametes) and
their products (zygotes, auxospores, and initial cells) were much higher in 84
pairs. To differentiate sexes, most valuable were morphological data obtained
from early stages of gametes development.
Clones isolated from geographically distant populations turned to be
sexually compatible; they readily entered intercrossing sexual reproduction
according to their mating types (Table 2).
Discussion
Sexual reproduction of the araphid freshwater diatom Ulnaria ulna (Photo 4)
was thoroughly investigated by L. Geitler (1939a, b). He gave a description of
allogamous reproduction as most usual in the species and showed that during
early stages of gametogenesis cell protoplast divided in the longitudinal plane
being attached to the valves; later gametes rounded, separated from mother's
frustules, and fused with the gametes, which in other cells had not yet de-
tached from the valves. As an exception to the normal cross-copulation,
Geitler described automictic (paedogamous) fertilization, when a single
mother cell formed only one zygote attached to both valves of the frustule.
He pointed out, not entering into details, an ability of Synedra ulna's gametes
to move and suggested that gamete movement correlated more with the tim-
ing of gamete formation rather than genetic sexual constitution.
Of course, Geitler could not investigate breeding system, distribution of
sexes in the population, as well as mechanism of sex determination and dif-
ferentiation because he worked mainly on material derived from natural
populations; breeding experiments with clonal cultures were of little used.
Comparison of gamete morphology and mating type distribution (Table 2)
suggests, however genetic determination of sexes. Genotypic type of sex de-
termination is also confirmed by appearance of “male” and “female” clones
in the intraclonal progeny that demonstrates heterogametic nature of male sex
(Table 2, intraclonal descendants of the clone 8.0626-D). Accordingly, we
were able to distinguish two types of gametogenesis corresponding to two
mating types, male and female.
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Photo 4. Valve (a, b, d) and girdle (c) view of cleaned frustules and the life form (colonies
on the filamentous substrate, e; and on the bottom of a Petri dish, f). Light microscopy,
differential interference contrast optics. Scale: 20 m (a), and 10 m (b—d)
Results obtained in the present study confirmed that Ulnaria ulna belongs
to the category IA2b in Geitler's (1973) system of patterns of sexual reproduc-
tion and auxospore formation. This category is characterized by formation of
two auxospores in the pair of gametangia, each of which produces two gam-
etes. Gametes behaviour is anisogamous, and both active gametes are pro-
duced by the same gametangium and move to fuse with the stationary gam-
etes. While differing in the beginning, male and female gametes of U. ulna are
finally equal by size and have similar shape. In this connection mature female
gametes may be misinterpreted as male. Rearrangement of gamete was not
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observed both in male and female parental gametangia. The mode of proto-
plast division, either in apical (females) or transapical (males) plane, does not
fully agree with Geitler's system. As more data are gathered, it becomes clear
that Geitler's classification needs in further modification (Stickle, 1986;
Mizuno, 1994; Chepurnov, Mann, 2004). Thus, following recommendations
by M. Mizuno (1994) we have to place U. ulna to the subgroup IA2(d).
In many principal features mode of sexual reproduction in U. ulna is very
similar to that of Tabularia fasciculata and T. tabulata (Roschin, 1994; Davi-
dovich et al., 2010; Davidovich, Davidovich, 2011). In contrast to U. ulna, in
T. fasciculata and T. tabulata female gametes were more tightly associated
with gametangial thecae. Rearrangement of male gametes was supposed in T.
fasciculata (Davidovich et al., 2010), however this question must be elucidated
in view of the data for T. tabulata (Davidovich, Davidovich, 2011) and new
data obtained for U. ulna where rearrangement of male and female gamete
was not observed. Interestingly, in the araphid pennate Licmophora ehrenbergii
(Kütz.) Grunow female gametes never rearranged, but gametes in male
gametangia rearranged or not, depending on the relative position of mating
gametangia (Chepurnov, Mann, 2004).
In the life cycle, the upper border of the size range suitable for sexual
reproduction may be from 30 to 75 % of the maximal cell size, depending on
the species, but in most diatoms it corresponds to 45—55 % (Davidovich,
2001). U. ulna has the upper critical size close to 40 % of the maximal size.
At the same time, there is no correlation between the cell size of parental and
descendent cells (Fig. 1), that may result in the situation when the smallest
gametangia produce the biggest initial cells, as well as the biggest gametangia
may produce the smallest initial cells. Consequently, the size restoration coef-
ficient may change from 1.7 to 6.8 (Fig. 2).
Following L. Geitler (1939a, b) automictic auxosporulation was quite
usual in U. ulna, and was reported to be the only mode of sexual reproduction
in Synedra vaucheriae (Kütz.) Kütz. (Geitler, 1958). Geitler's description of
homothallic allogamy in U. ulna (Geitler, 1939a, b) not brought into correla-
tion with any certain sex of clones. Moreover, he suggested phenotypic rather
than genotypic sex expression in U. ulna. Theoretically, monoparental but
allogamous reproduction is possible if gametes have a chance to be delivered
to the place of syngamy that may be achieved because of pronounced male
gamete motility caused for example by pseudopodia-like structures (Davido-
vich et al., 2012).
The mystery would be a mode of allogamous copulation, if exists, of
female gametes, which in contrast to male ones can not produce pseudopodia
and are immobile. Unfortunately, we found only paedogamous (Photo 2,
f—h) but not allogamous copulation in the female clones. At the same time,
homothallic allogamous reproduction of U. ulna seems to be normal for male
clones judging from a number of empty gametangia that were observed near
growing auxospores, and the fact that usually a couple of auxospore arose in
the space between opened thecae of the gametangial frustule.
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Fig. 2. Cardinal points. Diagram represents stages in the life cycle of Ulnaria ulna. The
numbers indicate minimal and maximal sizes of cells at the appropriate stages of the life
cycle. The coefficients of the size restoration are shown near the arrows
As more data were gathered it became clear that vast majority of pennate
diatoms revealed heterothallic mode of sexual reproduction, and this mode is
principal, while homothally is accidental (Chepurnov et al., 2004). In some
diatoms, e.g. raphid Eunotia species (Mann et al., 2003) or araphid Licmo-
phora communis (Heib.) Grun. (Chepurnov, Mann, 2004), the only known
way of reproduction was heterothallic. At the same time, there are much
more examples when homo- and heterothallic ways of reproduction are com-
bined in the mating system; that was applicable to Tabularia tabulata and T.
fasciculata (Roshchin, 1989, 1994; Davidovich et al., 2010), Nitzschia longis-
sima (Brèb. ex Kütz.) Grunow (Davidovich, 2002), Haslea species (Davido-
vich et al., 2009, 2012), and now has been revealed in U. ulna too.
In the last case, sexually compatible clones being mated in pairs yielded
great number of gametes and initial cells, while homothallic reproduction was
sporadic and unpredictable. Different types of the sexual reproduction proc-
esses may be presented at homo- and heterothallic ways of reproduction. For
example, cis-type of anisogamous heterothallic reproduction coexisted with
apparent isogamy in the case of homothallic reproduction in Fragilaria delica-
tissima Proshk.-Lavr. (Roshchin, 1994); anisogamous heterothallic reproduc-
tion was combined with haploid parthenogenesis in Licmophora ehrenbergii
(Kütz.) Grunow (Roshchin, Chepurnov, 1994) and L. abbreviata Ag. (Che-
purnov in: Roshchin, 1994), etc.
The male gametes of U. ulna produce structures, which we refer to as
pseudopodia. For now we can not designate the exact type of pseudopodia we
deal with. In fact they share morphological and growth characteristics of
several types of pseudopodia. At the beginning projections emerging on the
cell surface are similar to lamellipodia. When fully formed, pseudopodia are
long, slender, equally thin throughout their entire length; that relates them to
either axopodia or filopodia, which are both long and slender. Filopodia con-
tain actin filaments, sometimes in bundles and fibrils (Mattila, Lappalainen,
2008), while axopodia have an internal rod composed of numerous tubulin
microtubules (Weber et al., 1977). Projections (threads) produced by the gam-
etes of the diatom Pseudostaurosira trainorii were shown to contain micro-
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tubules (Sato et al., 2011). During retraction the threads wounded up tightly
around the gamete cell body, rather than depolymerized from the base. Our
observations on male gametes of U. ulna revealed similar projection behaviour
(Photo 3). Cytoplasmic projections arose and retracted on the surface of gam-
etes in accordance with their nondirectional movement. Projections observed
in U. ulna were very similar to those of Tabularia tabulata and T. fasciculata
(Davidovich et al., 2011). Projections seem to be sticky and might serve as
"lasso" to catch and draw gametes to each other. We observed this episode
once. The motility of male gametes due to cytoplasmic projections is probably
crucial for sexual reproduction of U. ulna, because this diatom, as a member
of the araphid pennate group, is non-motile in its vegetative stage. Female
gametes produced by U. ulna normally left the gametangial thecae, but we
didn't see that they formed pseudopodia and moved in the same manner as
male gametes. This may explain the fact that not every time gametogenesis
observed in intraclonal crosses was succeeded by the formation of auxospores
and viable initial cells; in all cases of the female crosses it terminated at the
stage of gamete formation (Table 2). Gametes were found in a number of
mixtures of two male clones, but in contrast to female, auxospores and initial
cells were also possible in some of them.
Viable progeny resulted from crosses between the clones gathered in the
Crimea, the Dnieper River, the Moskva River, and a small river in Cardiff
(Wales) suggests the absence of reproductive barriers. How powerful is the
gene flow between these populations remains unknown, but in principal
because of such a possibility we have to consider these populations belonging
to the same biological species. Freshwater U. ulna was cited to be found in
Europe, South-west and South-east Asia, North and South America, Australia
and New Zealand (Morales et al., 2007; Guiry, Guiry, 2012). Our data sup-
port an idea of world-wide distribution of the species. Nonetheless, assertion
about cosmopolitan distribution requires more thorough examination; and we
would not be at all surprised if several species were discovered in the complex
hidden under the name U. ulna.
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| spelling | Podunay, Yu.A. Davidovich, O.I. Davidovich, N.A. 2015-05-01T06:03:36Z 2015-05-01T06:03:36Z 2014 Mating system and two types of gametogenesis in the fresh water diatom Ulnaria ulna (Bacillariophyta) / Yu.A. Podunay, O.I. Davidovich, N.A. Davidovich // Альгология. — 2014. — Т. 24, № 1. — С. 3-19. — Бібліогр.: 36 назв. — англ. 0868-8540 https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/81068 582.261.1 + 581.162 Sexual reproduction and mating system of the freshwater diatom Ulnaria ulna (Nitzsch) Compère were studied by using clonal cultures. Mating system of the species involves homo- and heterothallic modes of reproduction; and both male and female clones were capable of homothallic reproduction. Two types of gametogenesis corresponding to two mating types were investigated. Analysis of the crossing table, gamete morphology, and sex distribution in the progeny resulted from intraclonal reproduction provided evidences that anisogamy and two mating types were determined in U. ulna genetically; male and female clones were hetero- and homogametic correspondently. Specific active movement of male gametes caused by the formation and retraction of pseudopodia-like structures on the gamete surface was described. The absence of reproductive isolation between clones gathered from geographically distant populations suggests continuity and broad distribution of the species. Вивчені статеве розмноження і система схрещування прісноводної діатомеї Ulnaria ulna (Nitzsch) Compère з використанням клонових культур. Система схрещування виду складається з гомо- та гетероталічних способів відтворення, причому як чоловічі, так і жіночі клони здатні відтворюватися гомоталічно. Вивчені два типи гаметогенезу, які відповідали розділенню клонів за статевою ознакою. Аналіз таблиці схрещування, морфології гамет і розподілу статі у потомстві, отриманому при внутрішньоклоновому відтворенні, служать доказом того, що анізогамія і поділ на дві статі зумовлені у U. ulna генетично; чоловічий і жіночий клони є гетеро- і гомогаметними відповідно. Описано також активний рух чоловічих статевих клітин, викликаний утворенням і втягуванням на поверхні гамет структур, подібних псевдоподіям. Відсутність репродуктивної ізоляції між клонами, зібраними з географічно віддалених популяцій, передбачає цілісність та широке розповсюджeння виду. en Інститут ботаніки ім. М.Г. Холодного НАН України Альгология Размножение и циклы развития водорослей Mating system and two types of gametogenesis in the fresh water diatom Ulnaria ulna (Bacillariophyta) Система схрещування і два типи гаметогенезу у прісноводної діатомової водорості Ulnaria ulna (Bacillariophyta) Article published earlier |
| spellingShingle | Mating system and two types of gametogenesis in the fresh water diatom Ulnaria ulna (Bacillariophyta) Podunay, Yu.A. Davidovich, O.I. Davidovich, N.A. Размножение и циклы развития водорослей |
| title | Mating system and two types of gametogenesis in the fresh water diatom Ulnaria ulna (Bacillariophyta) |
| title_alt | Система схрещування і два типи гаметогенезу у прісноводної діатомової водорості Ulnaria ulna (Bacillariophyta) |
| title_full | Mating system and two types of gametogenesis in the fresh water diatom Ulnaria ulna (Bacillariophyta) |
| title_fullStr | Mating system and two types of gametogenesis in the fresh water diatom Ulnaria ulna (Bacillariophyta) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mating system and two types of gametogenesis in the fresh water diatom Ulnaria ulna (Bacillariophyta) |
| title_short | Mating system and two types of gametogenesis in the fresh water diatom Ulnaria ulna (Bacillariophyta) |
| title_sort | mating system and two types of gametogenesis in the fresh water diatom ulnaria ulna (bacillariophyta) |
| topic | Размножение и циклы развития водорослей |
| topic_facet | Размножение и циклы развития водорослей |
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