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Reproductive Anatomy: Osteichthyans
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Biology
Undergraduate 4
11/10/2009

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Primitive bony fish testes
Definition
testis associated with kidney
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Teleost testes
Definition
duct from testes opens to outside anterior to urinary pore
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Lower bony fish ovaries
Definition
ovaries open into body cavity and eggs conveyed through funnel into oviduct
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Teleost ovaries
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oviducts continuous with ovary covering
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Ovary modifications
Definition
associated w/ internal brooding of young
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Gonad organization
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usually paired, sometimes degree of fusion
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Reproductive Morphology: Male
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testes -> vas deferens -> urogenital pore
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Reproductive Morphology: female
Definition
ovary -> oviduct -> urogenital pore
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