Physiology and histology of the Cubomedusæ: including Dr. F.S. Conant's notes on the physiologyBerger, E. W. (Edward William)
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Physiology and histology of the Cubomedusæ: including Dr. F.S. Conant's notes on the physiology
Berger, E. W. (Edward William)
Cubomedusae
But I have another and better reason for supposing the existence of only
one kind of cells in the epithelium. In a tangential section taken just
through the tips of the epithelial cells (Fig. 25) I find polygonal areas
with a central dot. This section does not at all agree with Schewiakoff’s
Fig. 8, in which he figures two kinds of cells. In Fig. 25 there can be
no evidence of two kinds of cells, unless both kinds have like flagella,
for these dots are the transverse sections of flagella continued within
the cells (Fig. 26).
The epithelium, then, is flagellate, a flagellum to a cell. Whether there
are flagella on the epithelium covering the region of the concretion, I
could not determine. But I believe that in all other parts, excepting,
of course, the corneas, it is flagellated. The fibers (flagella) of the
simple eyes are evidently the flagella of the invaginated epithelium.
Each flagellum has a basal body, and I could in many instances determine
that it was dumbbell-shaped (Fig. 12). This fact was not always evident,
however, and it was only occasionally that I felt sure of it. Often
the flagella showed only a general thickening within the cells (Fig.
26) while, again, the thickening (basal body) might be quite localized
near the surface of the cell. Each flagellum extends into its cell,
and occasionally I could trace one clear past the nucleus into the
subepithelial nerve-tissue (Fig. 26), just as I did for the axial fibers
of the retinal cells of the simple eyes. In those instances in which I
could do this, the fibers could so clearly be traced that little if any
doubt can exist. I have thus made bold and have drawn the flagella as
continued through their cells into the subepithelial nerve-tissue for all
the cells of the epithelium of Fig. 12.
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