| 41. | While the ovaries will develop, female mice will develop without a uterus and oviducts.
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| 42. | But they had some extras _ oviducts, uterus and the upper bit of a vagina.
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| 43. | The sperm may be retained in storage tubes attached to the oviduct until the following spring.
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| 44. | After fertilization, the conceptus travels down the oviduct towards the uterus while continuing to cleavage.
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| 45. | After hatching, the pups remain in the oviduct and receive additional nutrition from milky secretions.
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| 46. | The eggs travel along the oviduct.
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| 47. | Other species are ovoviviparous and the fertilised eggs are retained in the mother's oviduct.
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| 48. | They however lack a right oviduct.
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| 49. | The female portion contains the oviduct, transferring eggs from the common duct to the atrium.
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| 50. | Adult females have a single functional ovary, on the right, and two functional oviducts.
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