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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Anatomy Research International Volume 2012, Article ID 620924, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/620924 Research Article Changes in the Seminiferous Epithelium of the Testes during Postnatal Development in Assam Goat Kamal Sarma and J. Devi Faculty of Veterinary Sciences Animal Husbandry, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, R.S. Pura, 181 102, India Correspondence should be addressed to Kamal Sarma, kamalsarma73@ Received 6 July 2011; Revised 1 November 2011; Accepted 14 November 2011 Academic Editor: Hajime Amasaki Copyright © 2012 K. Sarma and J. Devi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The present work is conducted to elucidate the postnatal development of the seminiferous epithelium of the testes of the Assam goats from 0 day to 10 months of age. A total of eighteen Assam goats divided into six age groups, namely, group-I (0-day), group-II (2 months), group-III (4 months), group-IV (6 months), group-V (8 months), and group-VI (10 months), consisting of 3 animals in each group were used in this study. The seminiferous tubules did not have lumina up to the age of 2 months, hence called the sex cords, and these contained centrally placed gonocytes and peripherally located sustentacular cells. Initiation of spermatogenesis started in 4-month old kids. Luminization process was completed by 6 months of age with all the seminiferous tubuyes having well-developed lumina at this age. These seminiferous tubules contained all the spermatogenic cells of the adult testis. Onset of puberty was observed to be establishe