Fruit Fly Sperm Cell Tails (IMAGE)

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia

Fruit Fly Sperm Cell Tails

Caption

This is a picture of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) sperm, showing the growing flagella (in green). The structure at the base of flagella is shown in red, and blue marks the DNA of each sperm cell.

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Zita Carvalho-Santos, IGC

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