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Translating Available Food Into the Number of Eggs Laid by Drosophila melanogaster

Author(s) -

Jun Terashima,

Mary Bownes

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

genetics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.792

H-Index - 246

eISSN - 1943-2631

pISSN - 0016-6731

DOI - 10.1534/genetics.103.024323

Subject(s) - biology , drosophila melanogaster , drosophila (subgenus) , oogenesis , gene , genetics , gene isoform , drosophilidae , microbiology and biotechnology , melanogaster , evolutionary biology , embryogenesis

In Drosophila and other insects egg production is related to the nutrients available. Somehow the nutritional status of the environment is translated into hormonal signs that can be "read" by each individual egg chamber, influencing the decision to either develop into an egg or die. We have shown that BR-C is a control gene during oogenesis and that the differential expression of BR-C isoforms plays a key role in controlling whether the fate of the egg chamber is to develop or undergo apoptosis.

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