Histones in Fruit Fly Embryo (IMAGE)

University of Rochester

Histones in Fruit Fly Embryo

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Histones (shown in green) in fruit fly embryos. They are stored on lipid droplets (small dots/rings) and -- when needed -- travel to nuclei (large spheres) to package DNA into chromosomes.

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Photo by Zhihuan Li/University of Rochester.

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