MalacologiaPub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.4002/040.059.0205
Y. Yusa, J. Kitaura, N. J. Cazzaniga
{"title":"Variation in the Sex Ratio of Apple Snails (Pomacea spp.) in Their Native Range","authors":"Y. Yusa, J. Kitaura, N. J. Cazzaniga","doi":"10.4002/040.059.0205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4002/040.059.0205","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The brood sex ratio of the apple snail Pomacea canaliculata is highly variable among parents in areas where it has been introduced. Such variation in the sex ratio may reflect variation in the source population, or it may have stemmed from the mixture of multiple source populations with different sex-determining mechanisms. To distinguish these hypotheses, the sex ratios of F1 (hatchlings from wild-collected egg masses) and F2 snails (produced from crosses of the F1 snails) from three sites in the native range in Argentina were studied. The sex ratios of the F1 snails were not significantly different from 0.5, although there was a slight but significant difference among populations. The F2 broods from intra-population crosses also lacked variation in the sex ratio. However, the sex ratios in F2 broods from inter-population crosses were highly variable, from 0 (all females) to 0.84 (mostly males). Thus, the large variation in the sex ratio in areas where P. canaliculata has been introduced is probably due to the mixture of source populations.","PeriodicalId":49895,"journal":{"name":"Malacologia","volume":"59 1","pages":"239 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4002/040.059.0205","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70086318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MalacologiaPub Date : 2016-12-01DOI: 10.4002/040.059.0209
Parm Viktor von Oheimb, Lukas Landler, Katharina C. M. von Oheimb
{"title":"Cold Snails in Hot Springs: Observations from Patagonia and the Tibetan Plateau","authors":"Parm Viktor von Oheimb, Lukas Landler, Katharina C. M. von Oheimb","doi":"10.4002/040.059.0209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4002/040.059.0209","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Patagonia and the Tibetan Plateau both harbor various freshwaters with relatively low temperatures. Pulmonate freshwater gastropods are widely distributed in these water bodies. Both regions, however, also possess a number of geothermal hot springs. Such springs might have served as refugia for freshwater taxa during the Pleistocene. In the present study, two hot spring systems, one in Patagonia and one at the Tibetan Plateau, were examined. Individuals of Chilina patagonica (in Patagonia) as well as Radix cf. auricularia and Gyraulus sp. (at the Tibetan Plateau) were found living in the warm water. These taxa typically live at much lower water temperatures. At the Patagonian hot spring system, gastropods occurred continuously from warm to cold water. Analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequence data revealed very close relationships of Tibetan Plateau hot spring gastropods to cold water populations. Acclimatization and not adaptation is thus probably the main thermal adjustment process involved. Given these findings, it is plausible that hot springs have served as glacial refugia for these freshwater gastropods.","PeriodicalId":49895,"journal":{"name":"Malacologia","volume":"59 1","pages":"313 - 320"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4002/040.059.0209","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70086448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MalacologiaPub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.4002/040.059.0214
G. M. Davis
{"title":"Letter from the Editor","authors":"G. M. Davis","doi":"10.4002/040.059.0214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4002/040.059.0214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49895,"journal":{"name":"Malacologia","volume":"59 1","pages":"353 - 354"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4002/040.059.0214","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70086330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MalacologiaPub Date : 1981-01-01DOI: 10.5962/BHL.PART.11943
A. Scheltema
{"title":"Comparative morphology of the radulae and alimentary tracts in the Aplacophora","authors":"A. Scheltema","doi":"10.5962/BHL.PART.11943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/BHL.PART.11943","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49895,"journal":{"name":"Malacologia","volume":"38 1","pages":"361-383"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71141957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MalacologiaPub Date : 1980-01-01DOI: 10.5962/BHL.PART.11941
K. Boss, R. D. Turner
{"title":"The giant white calm from the Galapagos Rift, Calyptogena magnifica species novum","authors":"K. Boss, R. D. Turner","doi":"10.5962/BHL.PART.11941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/BHL.PART.11941","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49895,"journal":{"name":"Malacologia","volume":"20 1","pages":"161-194"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71141946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peripheral and central photoreception in Aplysia fasciata.","authors":"C J Stoll","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Extraocular photosensitivity in Aplysia fasciata was studied in the skin and in the central nervous system (CNS). Local illumination causes contractions of the muscles of the body wall, which are obviously mediated by the peripheral nervous system (PNS). Afferent sensory activity is supposedly mainly dependent on stretch reception. Light-induced peripheral reflexes habituate after repetitive stimulation in preparations in which the CNS is present. In preparations without CNS light-induced contractions are remarkably stronger and do not habituate after repititive stimulation. Central responses to peripheral stimulation could be evoked by both \"light on\" and \"light off\" stimulation, indicating that 2 types of photosensitive elements are present in the periphery. Observations on isolated CNS-preparations revealed that in the central ganglia photoreceptive elements are also present. Here, too, elements responding to the onset as well as elements responding to the offset of light have been detected.</p>","PeriodicalId":49895,"journal":{"name":"Malacologia","volume":"18 1-2","pages":"459-63"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11694846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental osmolarity and neurosecretory neurones in Lymnaea stagnalis (L.).","authors":"S R Soffe, C T Slade, P R Benjamin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cell body volume and Alcian blue-Alcian Yellow staining properties of neurosecretory neurones in the brain of Lymnaea stagnalis were compared for snails kept in de-ionised water and standard tapwater. In the same experiment, the ionic content of the blood, blood volume and body weight and environmental ionic composition were measured. Five days of immersion in de-ionised water resulted in significant decreases in body weight, blood volume and blood, Na+ and Cl- concentrations but no change in blood Ca2+, K+,and HCO3- concentrations, compared with controls. No consistently significant differences across the 5 day period were found in cell body volumes for Dark Green Cells, Yellow Cells or Light Green Cells (used as a control) when these volumes were compared for large numbers of cells from snails kept in de-ionised water and standard tapwater. However, the number of Yellow Cells which could be counted in snails kept in de-ionised water was lower than the number from standard tapwater by day 2 of the experiment and lower for Yellow-green Cells by day 5. We interpret this lower number to be the result of depletion of Alcian blue-Alcian Yellow stained neurosecretory material in these cells which made them impossible to distinguish. This was confirmed by examination of visceral Yellow Cells which could be identified on the basis of known location close to the visceral-right parietal connective.</p>","PeriodicalId":49895,"journal":{"name":"Malacologia","volume":"18 1-2","pages":"583-6"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11696871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H U Schröder, V Neuhoff, E Priggemeier, N N Osborne
{"title":"The influx of tryptamine into snail (Helix pomatia) ganglia: comparison with 5-hydroxytryptamine.","authors":"H U Schröder, V Neuhoff, E Priggemeier, N N Osborne","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Isolated ganglia possess the ability to concentrate tryptamine from an external medium by a process which is temperature sensitive and independent of sodium and other cations. Kinetic analysis of the accumulation process showed the influx of tryptamine to be a single mechanism with Km and Vmax values of 1.4 X 10(-4)M and 5 X 10(-8) mole/g/min. The influx of tryptamine is an unspecific process and is insensitive to a number of metabolic inhibitors and various analogues. The process of tryptamine influx is thus similar in principle to the low affinity uptake mechanism for 5-HT (see Osborne et al., 1975). The present data, which include some experiments on the release of 5-HT and tryptamine, are discussed from the point of view of a functional role for 5-HT and tryptamine in the snail CNS.</p>","PeriodicalId":49895,"journal":{"name":"Malacologia","volume":"18 1-2","pages":"517-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11696956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The fine structural organization of sensory nerve endings in the lip of Helix pomatia L.","authors":"I Benedeczky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The fine structural and cytochemical characteristics of sensory nerve cells have been studied in the lip of Helix pomatia. A ruthenium red positive cuticular layer was found on the surface of the sensory epithelium. Among the undifferentiated epithelial cells two types of sensory dendrites were observed, namely ciliated and non-ciliated ones. A large amount of smooth surfaced endoplasmic reticulum, microtubes and ribosomes were present in the neuroplasm of the sensory dendrites. However, rough surfaced endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, and electrodense bundles of long filaments were characteristic in the simple epithelial cells. The cell bodies of the sensory dendrites lie subepithelially among the muscle cells and they generally contain empty or dense core vesicles.</p>","PeriodicalId":49895,"journal":{"name":"Malacologia","volume":"18 1-2","pages":"477-81"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11696953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The fine structure of the oocyte and follicle cells of Lymnaea stagnalis, with special reference to the nutrition of the oocyte.","authors":"J E Rigby","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A description is given of the configuration of the surface membrane in the 3 zones of the polarised system of oocyte and follicle cells. Thus the cell contacts and relationships between these cells are considered and speculation on the significance of surface morphology in the passage of substances into the enlarging oocyte, is included.</p>","PeriodicalId":49895,"journal":{"name":"Malacologia","volume":"18 1-2","pages":"377-80"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1979-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11694843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}