A chamber where egg capsules are formed. One or more zygotes and yolk cells produced by the vitelline glands collect in the genital atrium; glands surrounding the genital atrium produce the egg capsule shell. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22074376 ]
A chamber where egg capsules are formed. One or more zygotes and yolk cells produced by the vitelline glands collect in the genital atrium; glands surrounding the genital atrium produce the egg capsule shell. [ ]
Synonyms: female antrum atrium
Term information
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2569-1939 | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7535-4407
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2569-1939 | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7535-4621
Term relations
- anatomical cavity
- contained in some posterior compartment of the whole animal
- obsolete specific_to some Smed sexual biotype
- existence overlaps some adult hermaphrodite
- part of some reproductive system
- contained in some copulatory region
- existence starts during or after some juvenile
- existence overlaps some juvenile