Cement glands explained

Cement glands are small organs found in Acanthocephala that are used to temporarily close the posterior end of the female after copulation.[1]

Cement glands are also mucus-secreting organs that can attach embryos or larvae to a solid substrate. These can be found in frogs such as those in the genus Xenopus,[2] fish such as the Mexican tetra,[3] and crustaceans.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Bush . Albert O.. Fernández. Jacqueline C.. Esch. Gerald W.. Seed. J. Richard . Parasitism : the diversity and ecology of animal parasites . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, UK New York, NY . 2001 . 0-521-66278-8 . 44131774 . 203.
  2. Sive . Hazel . Bradley . Leila . A sticky problem: The Xenopus cement gland as a paradigm for anteroposterior patterning . Developmental Dynamics . 1996 . 205 . 3 . 265–280 . 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199603)205:3<265::AID-AJA7>3.0.CO;2-G . 8850563 . 22326745 . 29 September 2021.
  3. Pottin . Karen . Hyacinthe . Carole . Rétaux . Sylvie . Conservation, development, and function of a cement gland-like structure in the fish Astyanax mexicanus . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . October 5, 2010 . 107 . 40 . 17256–17261 . 10.1073/pnas.1005035107 . 20855623 . 2951400 . 2010PNAS..10717256P . free .

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