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Keywords: general aspects of oogenesis, the origin of the egg chamber, the genetic control of the restriction of cystoblast mitoses, oocyte determination, contrasting behavior of the oocyte, nurse cell and follicle cell chromosomes, the nurse cell nuclei of mutants, the role of the nurse cells in vitellogenesis