[Nuclear structures in the ovarioles of the butterfly Laspeyresia pomonella. Sex chromatin in trophocytes].
The nuclear structures in the ovarioles have been studied in Laspeyresia pomonella by means of light and electron microscopy, autoradiography (RNA and DNA synthesis) and molecular hybridization in situ. The karyosphere was shown to form in oocyte nuclei at the beginning of oocyte growth. Numerous protein granules appeared in close contact with the karyosphere chromosomes; the true nucleolus was absent and the whole nucleus was inactive in RNA synthesis. A special attention was paid to studying nuclear structures in trophocytes. Numerous complex nucleoli actively synthesizing RNA formed in highly endopolyploid nuclei of trophocytes. Besides, each trophocyte had a spheroid vacuolized body of DNA which developed from one of meiotic bivalents soon after trophocyte differentiation and increased in diameter up to 10-15 mu. The DNA body in trophocytes and follicle cells was in close contact with the nucleolar material. Ribosomal DNA was present in these bodies as was shown by molecular hybridization in situ. A suggestion is put forward to the effect that the DNA bodies take part in the formation of complex nucleolar apparatus of trophocytes. On the basis of both the author's and literary data, a conclusion is drawn that DNA spheres in trophocytes and follicle cells are sex chromatin bodies formed, however, by both the X- and Y-chromosomes, rather than by one Y-chromosome.
D000818:Animals; D002080:Butterflies / Q000378:metabolism; D002466:Cell Nucleolus / Q000378:metabolism; D004247:DNA / Q000096:biosynthesis; D005260:Female; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D007915:Lepidoptera; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D009865:Oocytes / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D010063:Ovum / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D012313:RNA / Q000096:biosynthesis; D012728:Sex Chromatin; D014327:Trophoblasts / Q000648:ultrastructure*
D012313:RNA; D004247:DNA
Iadernye struktury v ovariolakh babochki Laspeyresia pomonella. O polovom khromatine v trofotsitakh