Insights on the female reproductive system in Hippolyte inermis (Decapoda, Caridea): is this species really hermaphroditic?

Autor:	Vanessa Díaz, Garcia Raso, María Eugenia Manjón‐Cabeza, Jose Enrique, Vanesa Cobos
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Appendage biology Ecology Decapoda Ovary (botany) Zoology Female reproductive system biology.organism_classification Shrimp Caridea Hermaphrodite biology.animal Reproductive biology Animal Science and Zoology
Zdroj:	Invertebrate Biology. 124:310-320
ISSN:	1744-7410 1077-8306
DOI:	10.1111/j.1744-7410.2005.00029.x
Popis:	The majority of the published data about the reproductive biology of the decapod shrimp, Hippolyte inermis support the idea that this species is a protandric hermaphrodite, as is reported to be the case for certain other caridean species. However, our studies, based on the relative growth of the male reproductive appendage and histological examinations of the ovary, testes, oviducts, and deferentia vasa, indicate that there is no evidence supporting the occurrence of protandry. The first report of anomalies in the process of sexual inversion is credited to Reverberi (1950); however, we have obtained no evidence to support this phenomenon in H. inermis. We have not found either ovotestes or testes transforming into ovotestes. Therefore, we propose that H. inermis is a gonochoric species.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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