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Estudos anatômicos e histológicos sobre a subfamília Triatominae (Heteroptera, Reduviidae): Parte XXIII: o ovário de triatoma infestans

Microanotomy and histology of the ovary of Triatoma infestans are described under the view point of its funcion. The ovary is of the meroistic-telotrophic type. The Tunica propria is a dobble membrane, the internal one divides the germarium from the therminal filament. The stratum germinativum is limited to a strait zone behind the volumous group of food cells. The oocytes, within the stratum germinativum, show the prophase figures up till the synapsis, when the cromatic filaments soon desintegrate. In all zones of the terminal chamber all types of cells are well individualized, there is no sign of syncytium to be found. In the beginning of formation the follicle epithelium is formed by some layers of cells with only one nucleus. During the growth of the oocyte, the epithelium shows only one layer of cells with two nuclei as consequence of an amitosis. The pedicel of the ovariolum has a circular gland.


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