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CORRELATED with the viviparous type of reproduction found in the tsetse fies, the essential features of which were worked out as early as 1895 by Bruce1, there is a great reduction in the number of ovarioles. Stuhlman2 and Roubaud3 studied the anatomy of the female reproductive organs and considered that each ovary consisted of a single ovariole, a view which has been perpetuated by every subsequent author. This communication, however, reports that in Glossina morsitans dissections have proved that each ovary contains, in fact, two ovarioles.
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Bruce, D., “Preliminary Report on the Tsetse Fly Disease or Nagana, in Zululand” (Bennett and Davies, Durban, 1895). (Original not seen; quoted from Buxton, P. A., “The Natural History of Tsetse Flies” (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Memoir 10 (1955)).
Stuhlman, F., Arb. Kaiserl Gesundheits., 26, 301 (1907). (Original not seen; quoted from Buxton, P. A., “The Natural History of Tsetse Flies”, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Memoir 10 1955).
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Mellanby, H., Parasitol., 29, 131 (1937).
Mellanby, K., Parasitol., 29, 142 (1937).
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SAUNDERS, D. Ovaries of Glossina morsitans . Nature 185, 121–122 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185121b0
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