Morphological study of muscular tissue collagen of wild and reared Cornu aspersum (Müller, 1774)

P. Berillis Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, University of Thessaly, School of Agricultural Sciences, Fytoko Street, GR-38446 N. Ionia Magnisias, GreeceCorrespondence[email protected]

M. Hatziioannou Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, University of Thessaly, School of Agricultural Sciences, Fytoko Street, GR-38446 N. Ionia Magnisias, Greece

I. T. Karapanagiotidis Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, University of Thessaly, School of Agricultural Sciences, Fytoko Street, GR-38446 N. Ionia Magnisias, Greece

C. Neofitou Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, University of Thessaly, School of Agricultural Sciences, Fytoko Street, GR-38446 N. Ionia Magnisias, Greece

Abstract

Muscular tissue collagen fibrils’ diameter and period of reared and wild snails (Cornu aspersum) were measured in order to investigate the role of nutrition on the collagen. Wild adult individuals were collected from Crete (Greece) and compared with adult individual snails reared under laboratory conditions fed a formulated diet. Transmission electron microscope and image analysis algorithms were used in the study. Statistically significant differences between the diameters of the collagen fibrils in the reared and the wild snails were found, and the D-period of the fibrils differed.

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