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XIX.—A Comparative Study of the Cytoplasmic Components of the Male Germ-Cells of Certain Mammals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

R. A. R. Gresson  and
I. Zlotnik
R. A. R. Gresson
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Edinburgh.
I. Zlotnik
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Edinburgh.
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The work recorded in this paper was undertaken in order to obtain further knowledge regarding the behaviour of the cytoplasmic components of the male germ-cells of mammals and the contribution made by these bodies to the structure of the ripe sperm. Consequently, mammals from different groups were examined.

Investigations were carried out independently by Zlotnik on the male germ-cells of the dog, the cat, and the rabbit, by Gresson on the boar and the ram, and jointly by Gresson and Zlotnik on the white rat and the golden hamster. Zlotnik (1943) originally identified and described the nuclear-ring of the spermatid and sperm of the dog. The accessory body was recognised simultaneously by him and by Gresson, but Zlotnik was the first to observe an accessory body within the localised Golgi material of the spermatocyte and to follow its extrusion to the cytoplasm, and, later, Gresson identified an accessory body within the Golgi material of the spermatid of the boar. In general the conclusions of the two authors are closely similar, such differences of detail or of interpretation as exist are discussed in this paper.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , 1946 , pp. 137 - 163
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1946

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