The development and function of the oviducal gland in Balanus balanoides
- 1 March 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 45 (1) , 115-128
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400004021
Abstract
In North Wales settlement and metamorphosis of Balanus balanoides occur in May and the animals breed for the first time in the following November. Three weeks after metamorphosis the oviducal glands appear as epidermal invaginations in the basal segments of the first pair of cirri. At first there is no lumen or external duct but these develop during the next fortnight. The wall of the gland is a columnar epithelium which increases in height as the gland increases in size. During mitosis this epithelium exhibits the pattern of cell movements characteristic of similar epithelia in vertebrate embryos.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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