The radiosensitivity of germ-cells at various stages of ovarian development.

@article{Beaumont1962TheRO,
  title={The radiosensitivity of germ-cells at various stages of ovarian development.},
  author={Heather M. Beaumont},
  journal={International journal of radiation biology and related studies in physics, chemistry, and medicine},
  year={1962},
  volume={4},
  pages={
          581-90
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:35334454}
}
As judged by the survival of oocytes at the age of 25 days, germ-cells in the developing ovary undergo two periods of high radiosensitivity: the first at 15 days post coitum, when oogonial mitoses are frequent, and the second shortly after birth, when the oocytes attain the dictyate phase.
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