Cilia in Fruit Flies and Humans (IMAGE)

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia

Cilia in Fruit Flies and Humans

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The fruit fly and humans have similar organs (testis in green, smelling organs in pink, hearing organs in gray), whose cells possess distinct antennae that help flies and humans sense different stimuli from the outside world.

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Swadhin C. Jana

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