PMID: 25782289Mar 19, 2015Paper

Probable structural functional evolution of sensory surface of osphradia of aquatic prosobranchian molluscs

Zhurnal evoliutsionnoĭ biokhimii i fiziologii
N N Kamardin

Abstract

At present, in ecotoxicological studies, as biomarkers there are used physiological reactions of invertebrates, based on diverse reflex. The primary chain of the reflex is chemo-, mechano-, and osmoreceptors. The structures are exposed on the surface of body and mantle cavity. Earlier, a hypothesis was put forward, which suggested that the polymodal osphradial organ of the pond snail might participate in adaptive reactions of aquatic molluscs to toxicants. The known homology of osphradial structures allows spreading this suggestion on marine representatives of various subclasses of Mollusca, although diversity of structure, of ways of nutrition, and multiplicity of aquatic molluscs can impede interpretation of future ecotoxicological studies. To elucidate this issue, we carried out the comparative electron microscopy study of osphradial organs in representatives of various families of Prosobranchia (Mollusca, Gastropoda). By ultrastructural parameters in the osphradial organs, five sensory cellular complexes (SCC) have been revealed. A probable connection is demonstrated of these cellular complexes with the known chemo-, mechano-, and osmoreceptor modalities. Structure of the complexes become more complicated in the process of ...Continue Reading

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