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Spermatogenesis in a Spider (Amaurobius sp.)

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AT the suggestion of Prof. J. Brontë Gatenby, I recently made some preparations of spider's testis, in order, if possible, to test the accuracy of the observations described by Prof. Ernest Warren in a letter to NATURE of September 12. In my preparations I have found many of the appearances figured by Prof. Warren. Fig. 1, probably corresponding to Prof. Warren's Fig. 3, is an early prophase of the first spermatocyte division; the clumps of chromatin are the first appearance of the chromosomes, and one clump (x), which is larger than the others, is presumably the sex chromosome. Fig. 2 shows a leptotene stage, Fig. 3 syndesis, and Fig. 4 a contraction figure in the diplotene stage. In all these, the sex chromosome can be easily distinguished, and in Fig. 5, which shows the chromosomes arranged on a normal spindle, the sex chromosome is seen lying apart in the cytoplasm. Fig. 6 shows the telophase of this division. The second spermatocyte division also appears to be normal.

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KING, S. Spermatogenesis in a Spider (Amaurobius sp.). Nature 116, 574–575 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116574b0

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