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Abstract Follicular cell ultrastructure during chorion and corpus luteum formation was studied in supplementary reproductives of the termite Kalotermes flavicollis. During choriogenesis the follicular epithelium is formed by large flattened cells joined together by specialized junctions. Follicular cells have an extended rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) with cisternae parallel to the cell long axis and many Golgi complexes surrounded by secretion vesicles moving towards the egg surface. At the end of choriogenesis the follicular cells move away from the just completed chorion and show few RER cisternae and scarce Golgi apparati. When the egg is ejected from the ovariole, the empty ovarian follicle collapses; the irregularly shaped follicular cells, now exhibiting in their cytoplasm small autophagic vacuoles and polymembranous structures, form the initial corpus luteum. This undergoes a further shrinking, becoming an ovoidal mass (the advanced corpus luteum) formed by irregularly shaped follicular cells c...
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