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Formation of actin filament bundles in the ring canals of developing Drosophila follicles.
The Journal of cell biology - 1 Apr 1996
Tilney L G, Tilney M S, Guild G M
Abstract excerpt
Growing the intracellular bridges that connect nurse cells with each o ther and to the developing oocyte is vital for egg development. These ring canals increase from 0.5 microns in diameter at stage 2 to 10 microns in diameter at stage 11. Thin sections cut horizontally as you would cut a bagel, show that there is a layer of circumferentially oriented actin filaments attached to the plasma membrane at the...
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