A Novel Chloride Channel Localizes toCaenorhabditis elegansSpermatids and Chloride Channel Blockers Induce Spermatid Differentiation
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A novel chloride channel localizes to Caenorhabditis elegans spermatids and chloride channel blockers induce spermatid differentiation.
Caenorhabditis elegans spermatogenesis is especially suited for studies of nonrandom cytoplasmic segregation during cellular differentiation. Spermatocytes separate from an anuclear cytoplasmic core and undergo two sequential divisions. During the second division, intracellular organelles segregate specifically to spermatids as they bud from an anuclear residual body. We have applied patch-clam...
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عنوان ژورنال: Developmental Biology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0012-1606
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.9999