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Drosophila mitoferrin is essential for male fertility: evidence for a role of mitochondrial iron metabolism during spermatogenesis

BACKGROUND: Mammals and Drosophila melanogaster share some striking similarities in spermatogenesis. Mitochondria in spermatids undergo dramatic morphological changes and syncytial spermatids are stripped from their cytoplasm and then individually wrapped by single membranes in an individualization...

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Autores principales: Metzendorf, Christoph, Lind, Maria I
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2905335/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20565922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-213X-10-68