Assembly of ovarian follicles in the caecilians Ichthyophis tricolor and Gegeneophis ramaswamii: Light and transmission electron microscopic study

Zygote

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 199-213

  Beyo, R S ^a   Sreejith, P ^a   Divya, L ^a   Oommen, O V ^a,b   Akbarsha, M A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

^b BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Caecilian; Follicular assembly; Granulosa cells; Mitochondrial cloud; Oocyte

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; OOCYTE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY;

AMPHIBIA; CAECILIA; GEGENEOPHIS RAMASWAMII; GYMNOPHIONA; ICHTHYOPHIS TRICOLOR;

EID: 34547173152     PISSN: 09671994     EISSN: 14698730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0967199407004327     Document Type: Article

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