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Reappraisal of nuclear DNA content of rodlet cells compared to several cell types from some freshwater teleosts, using two methods of microdensitometry
Author(s) -
Barber D. L.,
Westermann J. E. Mills
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1985.tb03223.x
Subject(s) - biology , nuclear dna , feulgen stain , dna , cyprinus , biophysics , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , fishery , gene , fish <actinopterygii> , mitochondrial dna
Nuclear DNA contents of rodlet cells from Catostomus commersoni, Semotilus atromaculatus and Cyprinus carpio were compared with nuclear DNA of erythrocytes and larger cells of the same species, using scanning microdensitometry and averaging microdensitometry. This study reappraises the work of Barber & Westermann (1983), which employed averaging microdensitometry only, and compared rodlet cell nuclear DNA only with erythrocyte DNA. In addition, this work considers sources of error in both methods of microdensitometry, and comments upon the use of microdensitometry of either method as a mechanism for making distinctions among the DNA contents of cells of different types. The results of the present work consistently indiate no significant differences within species between nuclear DNA content of rodlet cells and larger teleost cells, using either method of microdensitometry. Because of the lack of statistically significant difference in DNA content between nuclei of rodlet cells and those of known teleost cells, it has been concluded that the rodlet cell itself is probably of teleost origin. However, the method indicates nothing about the origin of the rodlets, which have also been shown to contain DNA, but are Feulgen‐negative.