polaroplast
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polaroplast (plural polaroplasts)
- An organelle, in microsporidians, that swells with water, and exerts pressure to rupture the polar cap and evert the polar tube through which the sporoplasm escapes to infect the host.
- 1967 February, Jiri Lom, “Ultrastructural Observations on the Development of the Microsporidian Protozoon Plistophora hyphessobryconis Schaperclaus”, in The Journal of Protozoology, volume 14, number 1, page 141:
- The polaroplast is a laminated structure, originating possibly by transformation of endoplasmic reticulum; the polar cap forms its apical part.
- 2015 August 6, “Description of the Microsporidian Parasite, Heterosporis sutherlandae n. sp., Infecting Fish in the Great Lakes Region, USA”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- The polaroplast consisted of a region of closely and loosely packed series of membranes (Fig 4D and 4E).