title: Evidence for endoreduplication: germ cell DNA levels prior to chromatin diminution in Mesocyclops edax.
abstract: We studied the functional significance of marked differences in the DNA content of somatic cells and germ line nuclei by static Feulgen-DNA cytophotometry for several species of microcrustaceans that exhibit chromatin diminution during very early stages of embryogenesis. Mature females and males showed many gonadal nuclei with elevated amounts of DNA that persist until dispersal of this "extra" DNA throughout the cytoplasm as fragments and coalescing droplets of chromatin during anaphase of the diminution division.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA. emrasch@worldnet.att.net
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Rasch
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Wyngaard
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002843:Chromatin; D003445:Crustacea / Q000166:cytology* / Q000235:genetics*; D004247:DNA / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004261:DNA Replication; D005260:Female; D005854:Germ Cells; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin; D004247:DNA