A morphological description of cells participating in sperm formation in Hydra oligactis males using a maceration procedure is presented. These descriptions are corroborated by the use of a monoclonal antibody, AC2, that binds to both a subpopulation of interstitial cells that appears to participate exclusively in gamete formation, and to all the gamete-differentiation products, including sperm intermediate cells, spermatids, and sperm. Use of the antibody as an interstitial cell marker has allowed an analysis of the behavior of the gamete-precursor (AC2+) subpopulation of interstitial cells during the asexual state and the early stages of gamete formation, when no differentiating sperm intermediates are present. The results indicate there is a gamete-producing subpopulation of interstitial cells which is present in low numbers in asexual males and undergoes extensive growth following the onset of spermatogenesis to give rise to sperm intermediate cells, and, eventually, the sperm. No input from the AC2- interstitial cells is required to account for this growth or subsequent sperm production. We speculate that the AC2+ interstitial cells may represent a unique subpopulation which is developmentally restricted to sperm production.

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