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The pronephros of Didelphis initially appears early during the ninth prenatal day and reaches the peak of its development at about the middle of the tenth day of embryonic life. It lies between the seventh and tenth somites and consists of five to six solid epithelial tubules that are continuous, both with the coelomic epithelium and the mesonephric (wolffian) duct (McCrady 1938). True nephrostomes do not appear in Didelphis and the solid epithelial tubules that do develop soon disappear after their formation.
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Krause, W.J. (1998). Urinary System. In: A Review of Histogenesis/Organogenesis in the Developing North American Opossum (Didelphis virginiana). Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, vol 143/2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72216-5_3
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