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Nuclear pores in the spermatozoon of the rat

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The paper describes a hexagonal array of nuclear pores in a non-redundant region of the nuclear envelope underlying the basal surface of the rat spermatozoon head. It is concluded that intranuclear material protruding through these pores is the cause of the characteristic rows of circular ‘bumps’ found in surface replicas of this region.

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  1. D. Mortimer

    Present address: Institute of Animal Genetics, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, EH9 3JN, Edinburgh, Scotland

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, BS8 1UG, Bristol, England

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Mortimer, D., Thompson, T.E. Nuclear pores in the spermatozoon of the rat. Experientia 32, 104–106 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01932648

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