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| Rangel,Bianca S.; Bruno,Carlos E. Malavasi; Salmon,Thierry; Ciena,Adriano P.; Miglino,Maria A.; Amorim,Alberto F.; Rici,Rose E. G.. |
| ABSTRACT Oviducal gland present in elasmobranchs is correlated to the organism's reproductive strategy, and its functions are to produce mucus, to form the egg's tertiary envelope and to store sperm. The gland contains four zones: club, papillary,baffle and terminal. The structures of the oviduct, oviducal gland and isthmus of blue shark Prionace glauca were described using macroscopic, light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy techniques. The epithelium of the oviduct and isthmus is folded and is a simple, columnar, ciliated lining epithelium with glandular cells. In the oviducal gland, the lining tissues in the four zones are similar to the oviduct and isthmus lining. The terminal zone shows the presence of sperm in the lumen of the secretory... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Cartilaginous fish; Electron microscopy; Nidamental gland; Reproduction; Shell gland. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252015000400663 |
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