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PHYCOLOGIA
Volume 55, Issue 4, Pages 359-364Publisher
INT PHYCOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.2216/15-150.1
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Anisogamy; Brown alga; Chemotaxis; Flagellar locomotion; Mutimo cylindricus; Sex pheromone; Thigmotaxis
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Locomotion of female and male gametes of Mutimo cylindricus was analysed using a high-speed recording system. Female and male gametes morphologically differed in terms of their cell size and flagellar length. Male gametes swam significantly faster than female gametes; although, the flagellar waveforms were almost the same. Thus, the different swimming velocities of male and female gametes may have been due to differences in their cell size. Chemotactic male gametes treated with the sex pheromone from settled female gametes behaved in a similar manner to the male gametes of the isogamous Ectocarpus siliculosus. The results of the study revealed the following: (1) free-swimming male gametes exhibited thigmotaxis, (2) the beat frequency of the anterior flagellum and the swimming velocity decreased, (3) the deflection angle of the anterior flagellum increased, (4) the unilateral beat of the posterior flagellum was affected by the sex pheromone gradient, and (5) the tracking radius of male gametes around female gametes decreased.
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