Mesonephric tubules
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'''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==
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==External links==
* {{EmbryologySwiss|ugenital/diffmorpho02}}
* http://www.uoguelph.ca/zoology/devobio/210labs/kidney2.html
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