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The Biological Bulletin, Vol 184, Issue 2 115-124, Copyright © 1993 by Marine Biological Laboratory

DEVELOPMENT AND REPRODUCTION

Ooplasmic Segregation in the Medaka (Oryzias latipes) Egg

V. C. Abraham, S. Gupta and R. A. Fluck
Department of Biology, Franklin and Marshall College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17604-3003

Using time-lapse video microscopy, we found that ooplasmic inclusions in the fertilized medaka egg displayed two types of movement during ooplasmic segregation. The first manifested itself as the movement of many inclusions (diameter = 1.5-11 {mu}m) toward the animal pole at about 2.2 {mu}m min-1; this type of movement appeared to be streaming. The second type of movement was faster (about 44 {mu}m min-1) and saltatory; inclusions displaying this type of movement were smaller (diameter {le} 1.0 {mu}m) and moved toward the vegetal pole. The movement of oil droplets toward the vegetal pole of the egg may represent a third type of motion. All these movements began only after a strong contraction of the ooplasm toward the animal pole, which at 25{deg}C began 10-12 min after fertilization and <3 min after formation of the second polar body. In eggs treated with microtubule poisons--colchicine, colcemid, or nocodazole--oil droplets did not move toward the vegetal pole, saltatory motion toward the vegetal pole was absent, and the growth of the blastodisc was slowed. Eggs treated with {beta}-lumicolchicine, an inactive derivative of colchicine, showed normal movements. Colchicine, while not inhibiting formation of the second polar body, did inhibit pronuclear migration. These results suggest that microtubules are involved in the movement of some ooplasmic inclusions, including oil droplets, toward the vegetal pole; the movement of ooplasmic inclusions toward the animal pole; and pronuclear migration.


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