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A STUDY OF THE ULTRASTRUCTURE OF THE UTEROVAGINAL SPERM-STORAGE GLANDS OF THE HEN, GALLUS DOMESTICUS, IN RELATION TO A MECHANISM FOR THE RELEASE OF SPERMATOZOA

Summary.: The general ultrastructure of the storage tubules for spermatozoa at the junction of the uterus with the vagina in the domestic fowl at various stages in the egg-laying cycle has been examined. Secretions were produced by tubule cells but no evidence was observed of a cyclic secretion of material into the lumen of tubules corresponding with the movement of ova in the oviduct and with the time of oviposition. Thus, a mechanism for the periodic flushing of spermatozoa from the tubules before the fertilization of ova in the upper region of the oviduct was considered unlikely to occur.

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