Organização celular dos testículos em Hylidae e leptodactylidae, no Pantanal (Estado do Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil)

The objective of this work was to make a comparative analysis of germ cell organization at different stages of cellular differentiation in adult males of Dendropsophus nanus (Boulenger, 1889), Pseudis limellum (Cope, 1862), P. paradoxa (Linnaeus, 1758), and Scinax acuminatus (Cope, 1862), belonging...

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Autores: Ferreira, Adelina, Rosa, Ana Barbara Dos Santos, Mehanna, Mahmoud [UNESP]
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/71153
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.4025/actascibiolsci.v31i4.3332
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/71153
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Dendropsophus
Leptodactylus
Pantanal
Pseudis
Scinax
Serra da Bodoquena
Spermatogenesis
2 hydroxyethyl methacrylate
alcohol
tolonium chloride
animal tissue
Brazil
cell differentiation
comparative study
controlled study
frog
germ cell
histology
male
microscopy
nonhuman
seasonal variation
seminiferous tubule
spermatogenesis
testis
tissue fixation
Anura
Hylidae
Leptodactylidae
Leptodactylus chaquensis
Leptodactylus podicipinus
Nanus
Pseudis paradoxa
Scinax acuminatus
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Sumario:The objective of this work was to make a comparative analysis of germ cell organization at different stages of cellular differentiation in adult males of Dendropsophus nanus (Boulenger, 1889), Pseudis limellum (Cope, 1862), P. paradoxa (Linnaeus, 1758), and Scinax acuminatus (Cope, 1862), belonging to the family Hylidae; and Leptodactylus chaquensis (Cei, 1950) and L. podicipinus (Cope, 1862), belonging to the family Leptodactylidae, collected in the Pantanal and in Serra da Bodoquena, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil. The testes were removed and fixed, dehydrated in a graded series of ethanol and embedded in methacrylate glycol resin (Historesin Leica®). The sections were stained by 1% toluidine blue and observed under light microscope. It was detected that all individual of the Hylidae family show, throughout the year, the presence of all germ cell types of spermatogenesis. However, all Leptodactylidae family individuals only show the presence of all germ cell types during the rainy season. The variations of characteristics in seminiferous epithelium organization, as well as the evident difference in the amount of spermatozoa inside the tubules, are evidence that the anurans in this work show different forms of spermatogenesis development throughout the year: the cycle is continuous for the Hylidae family, and discontinuous with explosive release of spermatozoa for the Leptodactylidae family.