Worm Breeder's Gazette 2(1): 14c

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Altered Gonadogenesis in Sterile Mutants of C. elegans Bergerac

N. Mounier, J. Brun

15 sterile mutants' dissected gonads, (obtained by BEGUET) were 
examined cytologically using the Feulgen reaction, during the whole 
adult period, to determine at which level the perturbation occurs.  4 
classes of altered gonadogenesis were found : mutants with a 
completely abnormal gonad, with spermatogenesis only, with normal 
spermatogenesis but disturbed oogenesis, and with the both altered.