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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Morphol. 2010 May;271(5):580–595. doi: 10.1002/jmor.10818

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Ovary of Alligator mississippiensis in parasaggital view. A: Three months after hatching stained with PAS/AB. B: Five months after hatching stained with PAS/AB. C: Three weeks after hatching stained with PAMS. D: Five months after hatching stained with PAMS. Dotted line rectangles define areas shown in greater magnification in lower left of images. Scale bars = 100 um. Nest of germ cells (N); connective tissue trabeculae (T); coelomic cavity (*); stage-1, 2, and 3 oocytes (S1, S2, and S3, respectively); follicular cells (F); prefollicular cell (pF); lacunae (L); Balbiani bodies (B); and basement membrane (BM).