This image of a section
from the ovary shows numerous primordial follicles
and a unilaminar primary follicle (lower left
quadrant) surrounded by connective tissue stroma. The ovary is covered by
a modified mesothelium called the germinal epithelium,
although it has nothing to do with the actual germ cells. The germinal epithelium
rests on the fibrous connective tissue capsule of the ovary, called the tunica
albuginea.
