Abstract
Nucleoli were noted by biologists very early (Fontana, 1781) and a lot of data has been accumulated on the structure of nucleoli in the last decades. Due to the work of Perry (1962; Perry et al., 1961) it is known that the nucleolus is the site of ribosome biogenesis. Its visibility both in the light-and the electron microscope is due to the fact that the genes for ribosomal RNA are not only transcribed but also processed and complexed with ribosomal proteins in nucleoli, rendering them morphologically different from the rest of the karyoplasm.
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Wachtler, F. et al. (1993). Ribosomal genes and nucleolar morphology. In: Chromosomes Today. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1510-0_5
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