XB-ART-29735
Eur J Cell Biol
1984 May 01;341:171-8.
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Heterogeneous distribution and replication activity of mitochondria in Xenopus laevis oocytes.
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In early diplotene oocytes of Xenopus laevis mitochondria are not dispersed all over the cytoplasm but gathered in a well described mitochondrial mass [18]. When tracing these organelles during active vitellogenesis we observe that some of them are involved in the elaboration of a cortical layer at the vegetative hemisphere of the cell while others stay around the nucleus. The latter contribute to the transient formation of a mitochondrial crown throughout active mitochondriogenesis. Autoradiographic studies of thymidine incorporation into mtDNA suggest a differential participation of each organelle to the final population of a full-grown oocyte according to its position in the cytoplasm.
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