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The fate of intramitochondrial paracrystalline inclusion bodies in germ line cells of water frogs (Amphibia, Anura)

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Numerous intramitochondrial pararystalline inclusion bodies (ICIB) were observed in the germinal plasm of a mid-blastula, and in primordial germ cells (PGCs) after their migration to the germinal ridges, inRana ridibunda, R. lessonae andR. esculenta. In oogonia the number of ICIB decreases rapidly. Single ICIB are observed in the germ cells up to the leptotene stage; they have never been observed in pachytene oocytes. In diplotene oocytes that have reached a diameter of about 100 μm ICIB are visible again, and their number increases concomitantly with oocyte growth.

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  1. Department of General Zoology, Zoological Institute, University of Wroclaw, ul. Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335, Wroclaw, (Poland)

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Ogielska, M. The fate of intramitochondrial paracrystalline inclusion bodies in germ line cells of water frogs (Amphibia, Anura). Experientia 46, 98–101 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01955429

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