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INFUSORIA , the name given by Butschli (following O.F. Ledermtiller, 1763) to a group of Protozoa. The name arose 3 14 Ciliata
8. Trachelius ovum, Ehr. (Gymnostomaceae); showing the reticulate arrangement of the endosarc, b, contractile vacuoles; c, the cuticle-lined pharynx. 9, 10, II, 12. Icthyophthirius multifi-lius, Fouquet (Gymnostomaceac). Free individual and successive stages of division to form spores. a, mega-nucleus; b, contractile vacuoles. Didiniunt nasutum, Mull. (Gymnostomaccae). The pharynx is everted and has seized a Paramecium as food. a, meganucleus; b, contractile vacuole; c, everted pharynx. Euplotes charon, Mfill. (Hypotrichaceae); lateral view of the animal when using its great cirrhi, x, as ambulatory organs. Euplotes harpa, Stein (Hypotrichaceac); It, mouth; x, cirrhi. Nyctotherus cordiformis, Stein (a Heterotriceae), parasitic in the intestine of the Frog; a, meganucleus; b, contractile vacuole; c, food particle; d, anus; e, heterotrichous band of membranelles; f, g, mouth; h, pharynx; i; small cilia. 13. I 4. 15. 16. from the procedure adopted by the older microscopists to obtain animalcules. Infusions of most varied organic substances were prepared (hay and pepper being perhaps the favourite ones), the method of obtaining them including maceration and decoction, as well as infusion in the strict sense; they were then allowed to decompose in the air, so that various living beings developed therein. As classified by C. G. Ehrenberg in his monan;encal /;tl'ttsisnslicrehcn ais vnllhomntcnc Organis- prolongation of the ectosarc containing a bundle of myonemes, so that by the contractions of the bundle the stalk is pulled down into a corkscrew spiral, and on the relaxation of the muscle the elasticity of the hollow stalk straightens it out. On fission the stalk may become branched, as the solid one of Epistylis and Opercularia (fig. iii. 20) ; and the myoneme also in the tubular stem of Zoothaminum; or the branch-myoneme for the one offspring may be inserted laterally on that for the other in Carchesium (fig. iii. 18). In several tubicolous Peritrichaceae there is some arrangement for closing their tubes. In Thuricola (fig. iii. 25-26) there is a valve which opens by the pressure of the animal on 1, Surface view of Paramecium, showing the disposition of the cilia in longitudinal rows. 2, a, mega-; b, micro-nucleus; c, junction of ecto- and endosarc ; D, pellicle; E, endosarc; f, cilia (much too numerous and crowded) ; g, trichocvsts; g', same with thread; h, discharged; i, pharynx, its undulating membrane not shown; k, absorption of water in excess: for after growing in size for some time, its walls contract suddenly, and its contents are expelled to the outside by a pore, which is, like the anus, usually invisible, but permanent in position. The contractile vacuole may be single or multiple; it may receive the contents of a canal, or of a system of canals, which only become visible at the moment of the contraction of the vacuole (fig. ii. 4-7), giving liquid time to accumulate in them, or when the vacuole is acting sluggishly or imperfectly, as in the approach of asphyxia (fig. ii. 3). Besides this function, since the, system passes a large quantity of water from without through the substance of the cell, it must needs act as a means of respiration and excretion. In all Peritrichaceae it opens to the vestibule, and in some of them it discharges through an intervening reservoir, curiously recalling the arrangements in the Flagellate Euglenaceae.The nuclear apparatus consists of two parts, the meganucleus, and the micronucleus or micronuclei (fig. iii. 17 d, iv. 1). The meganucleus alone regarded and described as " the nucleus " by older observers is always single, subject to a few reservations. It is most frequently oval,,and then is indented by the micronucleus; but it may be lobed, the lobes lying far apart and connected by aslender bridge or moniliform, or horseshoe-shaped (Peritrichaceae). It often contains darker inclusions, like nucleoles. It has been shown, more especially by Gruber, that many Ciliata
Fission is the ordinary mode of reproduction in the Infusoria, and is usually transverse, but oblique in Stentor
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Syngamy, usually termed conjugation or " karyogamy," is of exceptional character in the majority of this groupthe Peritrichaceae alone evincing an approximation to the usual typical process of the permanent fusion of two cells (pairing-cells or gametes), cytoplasm to cytoplasm, nucleus to nucleus, to form a new cell (coupled cell, zygote). This process was elucidated by E. Maupas in 1889, and his results, eagerly questioned and repeatedly tested, have been confirmed in every fact and in every generalization of importance. Previously all that had been definitely made out was that under certain undetermined conditions a fit of pairing two and two occurred among the animals of the same species in a culture or in a locality in the open; that after a union prolonged over hours, and sometimes even days, the mates separated; that during the union the mega-nucleus underwent changes of a degenerative character; and that the micronucleus underwent repeated divisions, and that from the offspring of the micronuclei the new nuclear apparatus was evolved for each mate. Maupas discovered the biological conditions leading to conjugation: (r) the presence of individuals belonging to distinct stocks; (2) their belonging to a generation sufficiently removed from previous conjugation, but not too far removed therefrom; '(3) a deficiency of food. He also showed that during conjugation a " migratory " nucleus, the offspring of the divisions of the micro-nucleus, ipasses from either mate to the other, while its sister nucleus remains stationary "; and that reciprocal fusion of the migratory nucleus of the one mate with the stationary nucleus of the other takes place to form a zygote nucleus in either mate ; and that from these zygote nuclei in each by division, at least two nuclei are formed, the one of which enlarges to form a meganucleus, while the other remains small as the first micronucleus of the new reorganized animal, which now separates as an " exconjugate " (fig. iv). More-over, if pairing be prevented, or be not induced, the individuals produced by successive fissions become gradually weaker, their nuclear apparatus degenerates, and finally they cannot be induced food granules collecting into a bolus; 1, m, n, o, food vacuoles, their contents being digested as they pass in the endosarc along the path indicated by the arrows. Outline showing contractile vacuoles in commencing diastole, surrounded by five afferent canals. 4-7 Successive stages of diastole of contractile vacuole. 3, cases the nucleus is so finely divided as to appear like a powder diffused uniformly through the medullary protoplasm (Trachelocerca). Carmine
its protrusion, and closes automatically by elasticity on retraction. typical mitotic condition. The micronucleus described by older In Lagenophrys the animal adheres to the cup a little below the open- writers as the " nucleolus " or " paranucleus " (" endoplastule " of ing, so that its withdrawal closes the cup: at the adherent part the Huxley), may be single or multiple. When the meganucleus is body
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The cytoplasm of the Infusoria is very susceptible to injuries; relative sizes the meganucleus would appear to discharge during and when cut or torn, unless the pellicle contracts rapidly to enclose the wounded surface, the substance of the body swells up, becoming frothy, with bubbles which rapidly enlarge and finally burst; the cell thus disintegrates, leaving only a few granules to mark where it was. This phenomenon, observed by Dujardin, is called " diffluence." The contractile vacuole appears to be one of the means by which diffluence is avoided in cells with no strong wall
under suitable conditions to pair normally, so that the cycle becomes extinct by senile decay. In Peritrichaceae the gametes are of unequal sizes (fig. iii. IT, 12), the smaller being formed by brood 1 fissions (4 or 8) ; syngamy is here permanent, not temporary, the smaller (male) being absorbed into the body of the larger (female) ; and there are only two nuclei that pair. Thus we have a derived binary sexual process, comparable to that of ordinary bisexual organisms 21 22 Spirostomumambiguum,Ehr.; on its left side oral groove and wreath of membranellae; a, moniliform mega-nucleus; b, position of con-tractile vacuole. 2, Group of Stentor
3, Tintinnus lagenula, CI. and L., in free shell. 4. Strombidium claparedii, S. Kent. 5. Shell of Codonellacampanella, Hacck. 6, 7, Torquatella typica, Lank. (= Strombidium according to Biitschli); p, oral tube seen through peristomial wreath of apparently coalescent membranellae. k, Basal, and 9, side (inverted) views of Trichodina pediculus, Ehr.; a, mega-nucleus; c, basal collar and ring of hooks; d, mouth; contractile vacuole and oral tube seen by transparency in 8. so, Spirochona gammipara, Stein; a, meganucleus; g, bud. II, I2, Vorticella 'microstorna, Ehr.; d, formation of a brood of 8 microgametes c by multiple fission; b, contr. vacuole. 13, Same sp. in binary fission; a, meganucleus. 14, V. nebulifera, Ehr.; bud swimming away by posterior wreath, peristome contracted; e, peristomial disk; f, oral tube. 15, V. microstoma; b, contr. vacuole; c, d, two micro- gametes seeking to con- , J ugate. 16, V. nebulifera, contracted with body encysted. 17, Same sp. enlarged; c, myoncmes converging posteriorly to muscle of stalk; d, micronucleus. 18, Carchesium spectabile, Ehr. 19, Nematocysts of Epistylis fla- vicans. Ehr. (after Greeff). 2o, Opercularia stenostoma, St.; a small colony showing upstanding (" opercular")peristomial disk, protruded oral undulating membrane and cilia in oral tube. 21, 22, Pyxicola affinis, S.K.,with stalk and theca; x, chitinous disk, or true "oper-, culum" closing theca in retracted state. 24, Caenomorpha medusula, Perty, with spiral peristomial wreath. 25, 26. Thuricola valvata, Str. Wright
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23, From Lankester's Treatise on Zoology .Ciliata. (From Hickson after Delage and Maupas.) I, Two individuals at coin- mate, while the other 3 mencement of conjugation nuclei degenerate. showing meganucleus 7, Migration of the migratory (dotted) and micronucleus; nuclei. successive stages of the 8, 9, Fusion of the incoming disintegration of the mega- migratory with the station- nucleus shown in all figures ary nucleus in either mate. up to 9. so, Fission of Zygote nucleus 2, 3, First mitotic division of into two, the new mega- micronuclei. and micronucleus whose 4, 5, Second ditto. differentiation is shown in 6, One of the four nuclei result- I I, 12. The vertical dotted ing from the second division line indicates the separation again dividing to form the of the mates. pairing-nuclei in either End of Article: INFUSORIA If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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