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An unusual cytoplasmic organelle in oocytes of Ilyanassa obsoleta
1Biology Department, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 11210 and Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543.
Abstract:
An unusual organelle in the oocytes of the marine mud snail Ilyanassa obsoleta is described and called a polymerosome, because of its several components. Polymerosomes appear at the beginning of vitellogenesis and persist, in part, through postvitellogenesis. The persistent part is similar to an organelle that has been described by other workers in the vegetal region and the polar lobe of the Ilyanassa egg.
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