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Steroids of Invertebrates: Production of Oestrogens by an Accessory Reproductive Tissue of the Slug Arion ater rufus (Linn.)

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A PREVIOUS communication1 described the endogenous production of 11-keto-testosterone, testosterone and 17a-hydroxyprogesterone during the in vitro incubation of the eggs of Arion ater. The present study concerns the in vitro production of C18 steroids from endogenous precursors by an accessory reproductive organ of this animal, the bursa copulatrix or spermatheca gland. The function of the spermatheca is believed to be storage of sperm acquired during copulation2.

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    H. GOTTFRIED, R. I. DORFMAN & P. E. WALL

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GOTTFRIED, H., DORFMAN, R. & WALL, P. Steroids of Invertebrates: Production of Oestrogens by an Accessory Reproductive Tissue of the Slug Arion ater rufus (Linn.). Nature 215, 409–410 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215409a0

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