Glands surrounding the oviducts which produce yolk cells. Yolk cells deposited into the oviducts travel to the genital atrium where they are packaged, along with one or more zygotes, into developing egg capsules. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18942102 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27149082 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16932928 ]
Glands surrounding the oviducts which produce yolk cells. Yolk cells deposited into the oviducts travel to the genital atrium where they are packaged, along with one or more zygotes, into developing egg capsules. [ ]
Synonyms: yolk gland vitellarium vitellaria
Term information
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2569-1939 | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7535-4959
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2569-1939 | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7535-4407
Term relations
- tissue
- obsolete specific_to some Smed sexual biotype
- existence overlaps some adult hermaphrodite
- part of some reproductive system
- produces some yolk cell
- contained in some copulatory region
- contained in some prepharyngeal region
- existence starts during or after some juvenile
- contained in some parapharyngeal region
- existence overlaps some juvenile