Why Does Making New Egg Cells Require so Much Cell Death? (IMAGE)

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Why Does Making New Egg Cells Require so Much Cell Death?

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These are microtubules (red) in an apoptotic germ cell (far right) and four non-apoptotic germ cells.

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James R. Priess and colleagues

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