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Biol Bull 162: 105-112. (February 1982)
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MODES OF INFECTION OF THE ASCIDIAN MOLGULA MANHATTENSIS BY ITS ENDOSYMBIONT NEPHROMYCES GIARD

MARY BETH SAFFO 1 and WENDY L. DAVIS 2

1 Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
2 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543

The renal sac of the sea squirt Molgula manhattensis consistently harbors a collection of fungus-like cells, "Nephromyces". These cells are not Molgula cells, but an organism(s) foreign to the host. Nephromyces does not have an obligate intermediate host. Nephromyces is not transmitted with the gametes of Molgula, but can be transmitted to Molgula through the ambient water. Nephromyces is released into the water after death of its host, although not necessarily only at this time. Molgula acquires Nephromyces after the initiation of feeding, which follows settling and metamorphosis. Nephromyces remains infective for at least twenty-nine days after isolation from its host.

Submitted on July 22, 1981
Accepted on November 20, 1981






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