Sperm morphology of two species of Olivancillaria (Gastropoda: Olividae) from the south-western Atlantic

• Published in: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
• Main Authors: Teso, Silvia Valeria, Giménez, Juliana
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press
• Subjects: Olividae; Sperm Ultrastructure; Reproduction; South Atlantic Ocean; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentino; Argentina; Silvia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/8428

Sperm ultrastructure in two species of the marine snail family Olividae is examined. Euspermatozoa of both species are com- posed of a conical, membrane-bound acrosomal vesicle; an axial rod and a basal plate similar in both species; a solid and highly electron-dense nucleus; an elongate midpiece co...