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Testis-Specific Bb8 Is Essential in the Development of Spermatid Mitochondria.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Vedelek Viktor, Laurinyecz Barbara, Kovács Attila L, Juhász Gábor, Sinka Rita
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Mitochondria are essential organelles of developing spermatids in Drosophila, which undergo dramatic changes in size and shape after meiotic division, where mitochondria localized in the cytoplasm, migrate near the nucleus, aggregate, fuse and create the Nebenkern. During spermatid elongation the two similar mitochondrial derivatives of the Nebenkern start to elongate parallel to the axoneme. One of the elongated...
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