The "unusual" reproduction of planktic foraminifera: an asexual reproductive phase of Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (Ehrenberg)
The "unusual" reproduction of planktic foraminifera: an asexual reproductive phase of Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (Ehrenberg)
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浮游有孔虫的“不寻常”繁殖:Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (Ehrenberg) 的无性繁殖阶段
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2006
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M. Tsuchiya
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K. Kimoto;M. Tsuchiya
Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, one of the planktonic foraminifera that lives in temperate to subpolar waterin the world ocean is widely used in high-latitude paleoenvironmental analyses. However, their life cycles and reproductive behavior are not understood sufficiently well. Here we present the first example of asexual reproduction in a planktonic foraminifer [Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (Ehrenberg) right-coiling form] in culture. Twenty six specimens of living N. pachyderma for cultural experiments were collected from surface water in the Tsugaru Strait, between mailand Japan and Hokkaido (lat 41°28.8’N, long 141°14.2’E, water temperature: 4.7°C) using plankton tow on Mar. 2003. One week after from collecting, one N. pachyderma released a lot of bispherical bodies in the culture vessel. All released individuals consisted of two chambers and were uniform in shape. Moreover, we could see streaming cytoplasm in them and what appeared to be rhizopodia protruding from their spherical shells. We kept these offsprings in different temperatures and succeeded in growing six specimens at 4.7 °C and 8 °C. Particularly, in spite of the right-coiling morphotype of the parental shell, all these offsprings developed the left-coiling morphotype. Moreover, three matured offsprings produced gametes. The SSU rDNAs of these gamonts were classified as N. pachyderma (sin.) genotype. Thus, N. pachyderma may have alternating sexual and asexual reproductive phases and exhibit both coiling directions. Our findings suggest we must reconsider the phylogenetic and morphologic uses of both N. pachyderma coiling variations as paleoclimate proxies. Anuár io do Inst i tu to de Geociências UFRJ ISSN 0101-9759 Vol. 29 1 / 2006 p. 461