The spermatogenesis of the mouse (mus musculus, var. albula)

✍ Scribed by Paul R. Cutright

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1932
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1019 KB
• Volume: 54
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0362-2525
• DOI: 10.1002/jmor.1050540106

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The previously reported diploid number of forty chromosomes has been verified; the sex chromosomes have been shown to exist early in the growth period and to be of the X‐Y type; and a chromosome‐nucleolus has been described in the resting stage of the primary spermatocytes which persists throughout synapsis and divides at the time of diakinesis into two parts that are equal in size and are thought to be the largest pair of autosomes. The diakinetic bivalents have been described rather fully. These are short and heavy and assume a great variety of shapes, the most characteristic of which are ring, V, Y, cross, and hexagonal. The union of bivalents during diakinesis has been shown to be an intimate one; in every instance first chromomere unites with first chromomere or third chromomere with third chromomere. This is considered to be significant evidence of the allelomorphism of chromomeres in mammals.