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Development of the plurilocular male gametangium inCutleria hancockii Dawson is fundamentally similar to that of the female gametangium. However, the sequence of mitoses is less regular and the number of divisions is more variable in the male structure. During mitosis the nucleolus disappears and the nuclear envelope breaks down into vesicles and cisternae. No well-defined chromosomal kinetochores were observed. The spindle does not persist during telophase. At least two types of vesicles, but no microtubules, are associated with cytokinesis. After cleavages are completed, each of the cells develops an eyespot and two flagella. The flagellar rootlet system consists of 4–5 bands of 5–10 microtubules radiating posteriorly from the basal bodies. Flocculent material surrounding the gamete at maturity may be involved with liberation. Prior to release, a pore is formed in each locule when the outermost layers of the surficial wall break, and the innermost layers expand out through this weakened region. The inner wall eventually bursts, releasing the gamete and flocculent material through the pore. The liberated gamete has a long, pleuronematic anterior flagellum, and a short, acronematic posterior flagellum which has a swollen base appressed to the plasmalemma.
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La Claire, J.W., West, J.A. Light- and electron-microscopic studies of growth and reproduction inCutleria (phaeophyta). Protoplasma 101, 247–267 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01276967
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