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On the Muscle Fibres and Locomotor Activity of Doliolids (Tunicata: Thaliacea) Q. Bone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Q. Bone
Q. Bone
Affiliation:
Marine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB
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Doliolids are pelagic tunicates which swim by very rapid contractions of the muscle bands that encircle their barrel-shaped bodies; the resulting jet pulses drive them forwards at instantaneous velocities up to 50 body lengths s-1 (Bone & Trueman, 1984). The obliquely-striated muscle fibres within the bands have the unique feature that they lack any kind of sarcoplasmic reticulum or sub-sarcolemmal vesicle system (Bone & Ryan, 1974). Most stages of the rather complex life-cycle of doliolids (Braconnot, 1971a) are small animals, less than 4 mm long; but in one of the species examined the largest may be up to 40 mm. This paper shows that external Ca2+ is required for contraction of the locomotor muscle fibres and that the decremental muscle potentials preceding contractions are carried by Ca2+. In younger stages, the muscle fibres within a band are electrically coupled to some extent, but in older animals, the degree of coupling decreases

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 69 , Issue 3 , August 1989 , pp. 597 - 607
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1989

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