Mesonephric tubules 4928242 210944044 2008-05-08T01:59:22Z JL-Bot 4773966 removing orphan template as 36 article links exist {{Infobox Embryology | Name = {{PAGENAME}} | Latin = | GraySubject = | GrayPage = | Image = | Caption = | Image2 = | Caption2 = | System = | CarnegieStage = | Days = | Precursor = | GivesRiseTo = | MeshName = | MeshNumber = | DorlandsPre = t_22 | DorlandsSuf = 12829807 | }} '''Mesonephric tubules''' are genital ridges are next to the [[mesonephros]]. In males, some of the mesonephric kidney tubules, instead of being used to filter blood like the rest, they "grow" over to the developing [[testes]], penetrate it, and become connected to the [[seminiferous tubules]] of the testes. The [[spermatozoon|sperm]] differentiate inside the seminiferous tubules, then swim down these tubes, then through these special mesonephric tubules, and go down inside [[Wolffian duct]], to the [[coelom]] and finally to the organ the animal uses to transport sperm into females. It gives rise to the [[epoophoron]], [[paroƶphoron]]<ref name="isbn0-683-30272-8">{{cite book |author=Fix, James D.; Dudek, Ronald W. |title=Embryology |publisher=Williams & Wilkins |location=Baltimore |year=1998 |pages=177 |isbn=0-683-30272-8 |oclc= |doi=}}</ref>, and [[paradidymis]].<ref name="isbn0-683-30272-8">{{cite book |author=Fix, James D.; Dudek, Ronald W. |title=Embryology |publisher=Williams & Wilkins |location=Baltimore |year=1998 |pages=185 |isbn=0-683-30272-8 |oclc= |doi=}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{EmbryologySwiss|ugenital/diffmorpho02}} * http://www.uoguelph.ca/zoology/devobio/210labs/kidney2.html {{Developmental-biology-stub}} {{Development of urinary and reproductive systems}} [[Category:Embryology]]