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Lampbrush Chromosomes as Seen in Historical Perspective

1987; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-540-47783-9_2

1861-0412

H. G. Callan,

Indigenous Studies and Ecology

Lampbrush chromosomes were first seen by the founder/father of cytology, Walther Flemming, in 1878, but Flemming was not convinced that they were chromosomes, nor did he know them by the name that has now become so familiar. Flemming and his student Wiebe were studying the development of oocytes of Amphibia and fish, and in stained sections through the oocytes of the Mexican axolotl they noticed elongate objects, apparently consisting of thin fibres normally arranged to the axes of these structures, in germinal vesicle nuclei. A drawing of these objects (Fig. 1) was published by Flemming in 1882 in his classical monograph on cells and cell division. Similar structures were seen by Rabl (1885) in oocytes of Proteus, and by Holl (1890) in those of the chicken.