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The Cytoplasmic Architecture of the Insect Egg Cell

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Insect Ultrastructure

Abstract

Investigations on pterygote insect oogenesis have yielded a multitude of data on the architecture and development of early and late oocytes (for reviews see King, R. C., 1970; Telfer and Smith, 1970; Mahowald, 1972; Anderson, 1974; Telfer, 1975; see also Miya et al., 1969; Truckenbrodt, 1970; Büning, 1972). Oogenesis has also been studied in some Apterygota (Cone and Scalzi, 1967; Cantacuzène and Martoja, 1972; Palévody, 1972, 1973; Matsuzaki, 1973; Bilinsky, 1976, 1977, 1979; Klag, 1977, 1978). Yet the end product of oogenesis was usually exempted from investigation; the newly laid insect egg thus remains largely unknown with respect to ultrastructure. This may mainly be due to technical reasons: the prevalence of yolk and the extremely resistant egg covers of insect eggs provide considerable handicaps for fixation and sectioning. Descriptions of the egg shell are therefore much more frequent than publications dealing with the egg cell.

“The secret of development lies in the composition of the fertilized egg; from it, all the rest follows of necessity.”

C. P. Raven (1959)

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Zissler, D., Sander, K. (1982). The Cytoplasmic Architecture of the Insect Egg Cell. In: King, R.C., Akai, H. (eds) Insect Ultrastructure. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7266-4_7

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