Abstract
Neurons of the ventral nerve cord (VNC) in the polychaete species Clymenella torquata and Nereis virens were ultrastructurally distinguished from glial cells by the smaller diameter and elongated shape of glial nuclei in adult organisms. In contrast to neurons, beta-glycogen-like particles and densely packed microfilaments were found in glial cytoplasm. Using these and other criteria, glial cells were distinguished from nerve cells in histologic preparations. All neuronal nuclei were counted in specified regions of the CNS of both polychaetes. In both species, the number of neuronal nuclei in various CNS regions remained constant in animals of very different body size. Since Clymenella has a set number of ganglia in the VNC and a set number of body segments, the total number of CNS neurons remains constant in adult members of this species. Since adult Nereis adds VNC ganglia in newly forming body segments, the total number of CNS neurons continuously increases, but the total number of CNS neurons in a ganglion does not change after it is formed.
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