Number of terminal filament cells (TFCs)
Range | 134.5 for manual counts 135.8 for proxy calculation TFCs/ovary |
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Organism | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster |
Reference | Didem Pelin Sarikaya, Abel A. Belay, Abha Ahuja, Aisha Dorta, Delbert André Green II, Cassandra G. Extavour, The roles of cell size and cell number in determining ovariole number in Drosophila, Evolution of Developmental Control Mechanisms, doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.12.017 p.4 left column top paragraph |
Method | Researchers estimated total TFC number by calculating an average TFC number per TFs |
Comments | Ovariole number is determined during larval development through the morphogenesis of somatic structures called terminal filaments (TFs), each of which is composed of a stack of seven to ten terminal filament cells (TFCs) |
Entered by | Uri M |
ID | 107152 |