ISSN:
1615-6102
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Summary Spirogyra zygospores were fixed in buffered 2% osmium tetroxide and embedded in Epon. Serial sectioning established that the pronuclei, in the zygotes studied, had come to lie in very close proximity but had not started to fuse. The pronuclei had interesting projections from their nuclear envelopes. These were regular finger-like structures containing both membranes of the nuclear envelope but lacking nuclear pores. The projections measured 0.22 μm in diameter and had an indeterminate length around 2.0 μm. They had an inner band on the nucleoplasmic side which appeared to describe a helix along the evagination maintaining a distance of 20 nm from the inner membrane, except for occasional small regions of contact. The possibility that these evaginations were important in nuclear movement or fusion was considered less likely than that they were involved in some kind of nucleocytoplasmic exchange, possibly organellogenesis like that described inPteridium.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02055781
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