The Switch that Stops Sex Cells (7 of 17) (IMAGE)

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The Switch that Stops Sex Cells (7 of 17)

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Wild-type Drosophila germarium stained by anti-alpha-tubulin (green), anti-Vasa (red) and DAPI (blue). This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 17, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Noriko Hamada-Kawaguchi at Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences in Sendai, Japan, and colleagues was titled, "Btk29A Promotes Wnt4 Signaling in the Niche to Terminate Germ Cell Proliferation in Drosophila."

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[Image courtesy of Noriko Hamada-Kawaguchi]

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