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Intraovarian sperm storage in Helicolenus dactylopterus dactylopterus fertilitzation, crypt formation and maintenance of stored sperm

The females of the bluemouth rockfish, Helicolenus dactylopterus dactylopterus (DelaRoche, 1809), store sperm within their ovaries for periods of up to 10 months. Twenty six females with standard lengths between 152 and 257 mm and six males with standard lengths between 253 and 209 mm were caught storage crypts with stored spermatozoa and to describe their evolution over the year. After internal fertilization and once sperm reaches the ovary, a crypt forms probably by an epithelial inclusion at the base of the lamellae of one or several spermatozoa groups that are floating freely in the interlamellar space of the ovarian lumen. Stored spermatozoa have a large cytoplasm bag surrounding their heads. This bag could serve as a nutritive reservoir during the long storage period. Many desmosonal and tight junctions between the crypt cells ensure tha male sex cells are protected against the female immune system

L’emmagatzematge d’esperma en la fertilització de l’Helicolenus dactylopterus dactylopterus

© The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2007, Suplement 14, p. 21-27

National University of Singapore

Author: Vila Espuña, Sílvia
Sàbat Bofill, Maria
Hernández Fernández, Maria Rosa
Muñoz Frigola, Marta
Date: 2007
Abstract: The females of the bluemouth rockfish, Helicolenus dactylopterus dactylopterus (DelaRoche, 1809), store sperm within their ovaries for periods of up to 10 months. Twenty six females with standard lengths between 152 and 257 mm and six males with standard lengths between 253 and 209 mm were caught storage crypts with stored spermatozoa and to describe their evolution over the year. After internal fertilization and once sperm reaches the ovary, a crypt forms probably by an epithelial inclusion at the base of the lamellae of one or several spermatozoa groups that are floating freely in the interlamellar space of the ovarian lumen. Stored spermatozoa have a large cytoplasm bag surrounding their heads. This bag could serve as a nutritive reservoir during the long storage period. Many desmosonal and tight junctions between the crypt cells ensure tha male sex cells are protected against the female immune system
L’emmagatzematge d’esperma en la fertilització de l’Helicolenus dactylopterus dactylopterus
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Citation: Vila, S., Sàbat, M., Hernández, M.R., i Muñoz, M. (2007). Intraovarian sperm storage in Helicolenus dactylopterus dactylopterus fertilitzation, crypt formation and maintenance of stored sperm. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 14, 21-27. Recuperat 23 març 2010, a http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s14/s14rbz04_Vila-pp21-27.pdf
ISSN: 0217-2445
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/2085
Language: eng
Publisher: National University of Singapore
Collection: Articles publicats (D-CCAA)
Is part of: © The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2007, Suplement 14, p. 21-27
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Subject: Helicolenus dactylopterus
Serrà penegal -- Espermatozoides
Bluemouth rockfish -- Spermatozoa
Title: Intraovarian sperm storage in Helicolenus dactylopterus dactylopterus fertilitzation, crypt formation and maintenance of stored sperm
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