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Drosophila spermatogenesis: insights into testicular cancer
15 Jun 2007
Abstract excerpt
Geneticists have a long history of studying reproduction in the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster, and in recent years it has become apparent that many of the genes that regulate invertebrate reproduction have been conserved through vertebrate evolution. As with other higher eukaryotes, spermatogenesis in Drosophila is characterized by a regenerative germline stem cell population that divides asymmetrically to...
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