Faculty Research 1970 - 1979

The morphology of fetal gonads of spontaneous mouse hermaphrodites.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1979

Keywords

Female, Gonads: em, Hermaphroditism: em, Male, Meiosis, Mice, Mice-Inbred-Strains, Ovary: em, Sex-Determination, SUPPORT-U-S-GOVT-P-H-S, Testis: em

First Page

63

Last Page

78

JAX Source

J-Embryol-Exp-Morphol. 1979 Aug; 52:63-78.

Abstract

The gonads of 107 spontaneous, chromosomal mosaic, day-15 fetal hermaphrodites derived from BALB/cWt strain male mice are described and photographs of seven gonads representative of the major types are presented. There were 16 ovaries, 15 testes, and 183 ovotestes. The ovotestes contained on the average more testicular tissue than ovarian, and the ovarian tissue was more frequently located at the gonad poles, particularly the craniad pole. There was no difference between left and right sides with regard to gonad type, but more pure gonads were found on the left than on the right side (21/10), Meioses were observed throughout the ovarian tissue and also in some testicular cords, particularly in the caudad pole of the gonad. Some meiotic figures contained sex vesicles. The significance of these findings is discussed in relation to several aspects of sex determination.

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