Handbook - Hermaphrodite

Reproductive System
Germ Line
see also
   Overview
   Somatic Gonad
   Egg-laying Apparatus

1 General description
2 Mitosis and meiosis in the germ line

3 Germ-line programmed cell deaths

4 Oocyte maturation, ovulation and fertilization
5 Germ-line development
6 Spermatogenesis and spermiogenesis

7 References

Figures
GermFIG1GermFIG 1 - DIC view of an adult    hermaphrodite anterior gonad    arm
GermFIG2GermFIG 2 - Germ cells
GermFIG3GermFIG 3A-D - Germ-line cell
    nuclei morphologies in meiotic
    prophase 1
GermFIG3EGermFIG 3E - Diakinesis in the
   proximal gonad arm
GermFIG4GermFIG 4A-C - PCD in the adult
    germ line
GermFIG4DGermFIG 4D - Time course of
   germ cell PCD
GermFIG5GermFIG 5 - Major sperm protein
   promotes oocyte maturation
   and ovulation
GermFIG6GermFIG 6 - Germ-line
   development
GermFIG7AGermFIG 7A - Sperm
   development
GermFIG7BGermFIG 7B - Spermatogenesis
GermFIG7CDGermFIG 7CD - Spermatogenesis
GermFIG8GermFIG 8 - Development of
   FB-MOs during spermiogenesis
GermFIG9GermFIG 9 - EM of FB-MOs
GermMOVIE1GermMOVIE 1 - Animation of
   hermaphrodite gonadogenesis