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Abstract
Air dried preparations and sections of mouse seminiferous tubules were stained with an ammoniacal silver solution to study the behaviour of silver positive structures in meiotic prophase I nuclei. The presence of RNA was investigated using specific staining techniques and RNase digestion. Pachytene nuclei showed silver precipitation at the paracentromeric region of two to six autosomal bivalents. In spermatogonia at least the chromosome nos. 12, 15, 16, 17 and 18 proved to have transcriptionally active nucleolus organizer regions. From late pachytene the Ag-positive structures migrate towards the sex vesicle. In prediffuse diplotene, when the silver spots reached the sex vesicle, a vacuole-like body appeared near the sex vesicle. At the same time significant amounts of RNA accumulate near to the sex vesicle. Finally, in diffuse diplotene a tripartite structure could be observed, composed of (a) a horseshoe-shaped structure adjacent to the sex vesicle, which contains a great deal of RNA, (b) a vacuole-like body, being enclosed by the horseshoe and (c) an Ag-positive mass, migrated from the nucleolus organizer regions. It is probable that the tripartite structure, or at least a part of it, is a large nucleolus. The significance of the structure is discussed.
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