1888 Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 647Internally it opens, when single, into the *vitello-duct, or germ-duct.
1956 Nature 11 Feb. 277/1 (in table) All fully regressed; no commencement of *vitellogenesis. [ honey-bee ovaries]
1974 Ibid. 4 Jan. 72/2Some fish are not fully regressed and have ovaries in early stages of vitellogenesis.
1961 Biol. Abstr. XXXVI. 1333/1 (heading)*Vitellogenetic processes of A. depilans observed by electron microscopy with further considerations on the Golgi apparatus.
1978 Nature 23 Mar. 351/2 The last female revealed no chorionated eggs and only four late vitellogenetic proximal oocytes..in the ovarioles.
1964 Symp. R.Entomol. Soc. ii. 37In Drosophila, one *vitellogenic oocyte is normally found in each ovariole.
1974 Nature 4 Jan. 71/2 The induction of sexual behaviour in female goldfish..by injection of ovulated eggs into the ovarian lumen of individuals with vitellogenic ovaries.
1969 Jrnl. InsectPhysiol. XV. 1279Two immunochemically discrete protein yolk precursors or *vitellogenins appear in the blood of adult Periplaneta americana on day 4 or 5 after emergence.
1973 Nature 13 July 103/2 Insect yolk proteins, or vitellogenins, are synthesized and secreted by the fat body.
1982 Sci. Amer. Nov. 139/3In the liver the phospholipids are incorporated into a lipophosphoprotein known as vitellogenin. [ of the garter snake]
1872 E. R. Lankester Advancem. Sci. (1890) 265The others disappear as..*vitellogenous cells.
1878 F. J. Bell Gegenbaur'sComp. Anat. 301This vitellogenous layer occupies the portion of the chamber behind the egg-cell.
1854 Bushman in Orr'sCirc. Sci. II. 84A communication is found to have arisen between the yolk and the intestine, by a wide duct termed the *vitello-intestinal duct.
1886 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. II. 247/2In the red eggs of Maja squinado R. Maly found two kinds of coloring matter, which he named *vitellolutein and vitellorubin.
Ibid. 248/1Vitellolutein is soluble in alcohol to a clear yellow solution.
1892 J. P. McMurrich in Zool. Anzeiger XV. 274In the same manner the endoderm cells are excluded from the surface of the egg, but in this case there is an actual immigration, the cells sinking down into the interior of the yolk, and becoming ‘*vitellophags’.
1904 Science 8 April 588/2 There is no satisfactory evidence to show that the cells..are really such, and not dividing cleavage cells or possibly vitellophags.
1935 . [ see presumptive a. 3 b]
1978 R. J. Elzinga Fund. Entomol. iv. 86Some of these nuclei remain behind to become vitellophags, cells for metabolizing yolk for embryonic use.
1886 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. II. 248/1*Vitellorubin occurs in an amorphous form, soluble in alcohol to a brown fluid.
ORIGIN: from Latin vitellus : see -o- .
vitello-
combining form
see vitell-
see vitell-