Interactions between sex-transformation mutants of Drosophila melanogaster. I. Hemolymph vitellogenins and gonad morphology.

doi:10.1093/genetics/99.3-4.429

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Interactions between sex-transformation mutants of Drosophila melanogaster. I. Hemolymph vitellogenins and gonad morphology.

Genetics - 1 Jan 2000

Ota T, Fukunaga A, Kawabe M, Oishi K

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In Drosophila, vitellogenins (yolk protein precursors) are synthesized by the female fat body, secreted into the hemolymph and subsequently taken up by the developing oocytes. The male fat body, on the other hand, does not do this even when immature ovaries are transplanted into the body cavity a...

Topics

Animals
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Genotype
Gonads
Hemolymph
Lipoproteins
Male
Mutation
Phenotype
Sex Determination Analysis
Sex Differentiation
Vitellogenins
X Chromosome

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