EDUARDO KOCH1,2, ISRAEL A. VEGA1,3,4, ALFREDO CASTRO-VAZQUEZ1,3,4
BIOCELL, Vol.41, No.2-3, pp. 59-62, 2017, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2017.41.059
Abstract The digestive gland of the apple snail Pomacea canaliculata lodges two types of pigmented corpuscles (identified as C and K corpuscles) which has been proposed as endosymbiont/s. Both corpuscular types are always present in the digestive gland of adult snails, they are released into the tubuloacinar lumen and are later expelled in the feces. On their part, hatchlings lack any C or K corpuscles in the digestive gland as well as in their feces, whereas C corpuscles appear in both the gland and feces within one week after hatching. Hence, it is possible that the detritivorous hatchlings acquire the putative… More >
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