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Preliminary observations on the role of the coelomic cells in food storage and transport in certain polychaetes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. Phillips Dales
R. Phillips Dales
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Department of Zoology, Bedford College, University of London
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Determinations of the concentration of fat and glycogen in the body wall, in different parts of the gut and in the coelomic cells are described in Amphitrite and Arenicola. It is suggested that the trephocyte system constitutes a store of fat and glycogen derived from a primary store in the absorptive parts of the gut itself. In Arenicola and Nereis surplus fat is removed from the gut itself through the blood or directly by amoebocytes; the fat deposited in the epidermis and the glycogen in the peritoneum. In these worms the coelomic trephocytes are solely concerned with the maturation of the gametes. No relationship can be established between these cells and the chloragocytes. In Amphitrite and Terebella fat is stored also in the coelomic trephocytes which may derive their contents directly from the gut or from the body wall. Glycogen is stored in the trephocytes in Amphitrite, and in Arenicola in the peritoneum. Thus while large amounts of fat and glycogen are found in the trephocytes in Amphitrite, the total amount present in the body is no more than in Arenicola which lacks a well-developed trephocyte system, and in this species a larger proportion of fat and glycogen is found in the body wall.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 1957 , pp. 91 - 110
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1957

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