Abstract:During early oogenesis in Dysdercus fasciatus, anteriorly positioned nurse cells supply each oocyte with mRNA, ribosomes, and proteins via a microtubule-rich nutritive tube that lengthens as the oocyte is displaced backwards down an ovariole. Nurse cell-dependent development of an oocyte continues until the latter reaches a particular stage of oogenesis after which the nutritive tube supplying it becomes redundant and breaks down. The signal for nutritive tube breakdown is believed to derive from the oocyte, a… Show more
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