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THIRTEEN years ago Montgomery, an American cytologist, published a paper in the Biological Bulletin, claiming that in Peripatus there was complete rejection of the mitochondria during spermateleosis. This work has been widely quoted as strong evidence against the Meves' mitochondrial idioplasm theory; but Montgomery's investigation has never since been confirmed or denied.
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GATENBY, J. Spermatogenesis of Peripatus. Nature 115, 381–382 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115381c0
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