%0 Journal Article %T Histological characterization of cellular types during Scinax fuscovarius oogenesis (Lutz) (Anura, Hylidae) %A Oliveira %A Classius de %A Santos %A Lia Raquel de Souza %J Revista Brasileira de Zoologia %D 2004 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0101-81752004000400029 %X this paper describes morphological characteristics of the ovarian germinative cells of the scinax fuscovarius (lutz, 1925). the ovary is organized in primordial germinative cells (oogonia) and follicular structures (ovarian follicle) - oocytes surrounded by follicular cells. oogonia: their nests are peripherically localized, containing cells with large and oval nucleus. oocytes i: basophilic cytoplasm; the spherical nucleus presents few nucleoli, one or two; the follicular cells (one tenuous layer) surround these previtellogenic cells. oocytes ii: the cell is larger and the cytoplasm becomes more basophilic; the nucleus presents few nucleoli and contains many chromosomes in the periphery (beginning the perinucleolar stage). oocytes iii: the cytoplasm acquires an intense acidophilia; the peripherical region of cytoplasm is filled with yolk and the internal region has no yolk at all; pigment synthesis begins; the follicular envelope presents three tenuous layers: an inner acellular (vitelline envelope) and two cellular layers (follicle cells). oocytes iv: a characteristic of this stage is the differentiation between the animal and the vegetal poles; the nucleus in the animal hemisphere and the pigments give the oocyte a color dark brown; the vitellogenesis is intense and the yolk occupies the whole cytoplasm. %K oocytes %K oogonia %K ovary %K pigment %K vitellogenesis. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0101-81752004000400029&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en