indifferent gonad in dogs

A gonad prior to differentiating into a definitive testis or ovary. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the indifferent gonad is

A gonad prior to differentiating into a definitive testis or ovary. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the indifferent gonad is

It sits within the reproductive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the indifferent gonad connects to

The atlas records 3 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of indifferent external genitalia.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the indifferent gonad. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as gonad rudiment. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0009117, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: indifferent external genitalia.
• A kind of: gonad.
• develops into: ovary.

Questions

Where is the indifferent gonad?

It sits within the reproductive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the indifferent gonad connect to?

Part of: indifferent external genitalia.

Is the indifferent gonad the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.