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New microscopy data have been reported by G.G. Parreira and co-authors

Published in Medical Imaging Business Week, January 21st, 2010

According to a study from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, "We examined the spermatozoa and their relationship with the ovarian lamellae in the catfish Trachelyopterus galeatus by classical light microscopy, high-resolution light microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. Tachelyopterus galeatus is an internally inseminating species the spermatozoon of which presented an elongated cylindrical head (12.3 +/- 1.5 mu m), elongated midpiece (5.0 +/- 0.7 mu m), and flagellum (23.9 +/- 2.8 mu m)."

"Fertilized eggs or embryos were not found in its ovaries. Spermatozeugmata were demonstrated for the first time in this species. At the ultrastructural level, the anterior region of...

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