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Follicle cell tubular system in the prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii: a route for exchanges between haemolymph and
Biology of the Cell
|January 1, 1984
Abstract:
The epithelial cells of the ovary follicles have been studied in the prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii using electron microscope and horseradish peroxidase. A network of circumvoluted and anastomosed tubules, measuring about 0.15 micron in diameter, communicates with the extracellular spaces. This tubular network is a structure which extensively increases the permeability of the follicular epithelium.