Ovarian balls (Floating ovaries) of Rhadinorhynchus niloticus Mohamadain, 1989 from the Nile perch Lates niloticus Linnaeus, 1758; an electron microscope study
In Acanthocephala, the ovarian balls (floating ovaries) are distinctive structures found suspended in the fluid-filled metasoma mpu63zm/a of females and are responsible for egg production and maturation.Those structures have not been studied in Rhadinorhynchus niloticus.We aimed to investigate their ultra-structure by means of scanning and transmis