Abstract

The distribution and the behaviour of the nucleolus organizer regions (NORs) were analysed during the spermatogenesis and oogenesis of K. flavicollis with the silver staining method. The Ag-stainability of the NORs increases in growing spermatocytes up to pachytene and is absent during the remainder of the meiotic prophase. During female meiosis the nucleolar material undergoes a more complex transformation. It is active until pachytene; in early diplotene the mass of silver stainable material progressively increases as an effect of rDNA amplification. By the end of meiotic prophase the nucleolar strands disappear and a large nucleolus is rebuilt in the mature oocyte.

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