Argentophilic structures of spermatogenesis in the yellow fever mosquito.
Application of the silver-staining technique to air-dried chromosome preparations of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, revealed the following: 1) intensely stained pericentromeric regions in all chromosomes including the Y chromosome in spermatogonia, and during the primary and secondary spermatocytes; 2) the presence of prepachytene that were not reported earlier; 3) a nucleolus organizing region that persisted up to the late pachytene stage; and 4) rod or ring-like centrioles in pachytene and diplotene stages. In addition, varying numbers (1-4) of silver-stained, ring-like structures were observed during spermiogenesis. The exact nature and function of these ring-like structures is not understood.
D000330:Aedes / Q000166:cytology / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D002466:Cell Nucleolus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008297:Male; D008540:Meiosis; D008677:Metaphase; D013090:Spermatocytes / Q000166:cytology; D013091:Spermatogenesis; D013737:Testis / Q000166:cytology; D014998:Y Chromosome / Q000648:ultrastructure