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REFERRING to Dr. Graham Cannon's letter in NATURE of July 18, I may be permitted to remark that the reason why it is not only inadvisable but even unprofitable to discuss oogenesis in general, on the basis of work done on a single species of one order, is that, unlike the chromosomes, the Golgi bodies and mitochondria are variable in behaviour in different orders, and even within a single family. This is the most important fact which recent researches on the cytoplasmic inclusions have revealed, and, of course, throws a clear light on the question of the status of these bodies in heredity.
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GATENBY, J. The Oogenesis of Lumbricus. Nature 116, 172 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116172d0
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