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. 2013 Oct;11(10):e1001694.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001694. Epub 2013 Oct 29.

His hormone, her oogenesis: how male malaria mosquitoes trigger female egg development

Richard Robinson  1
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His hormone, her oogenesis: how male malaria mosquitoes trigger female egg development

Richard Robinson. PLoS Biol. 2013 Oct.
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Anopheles oocytes after blood feeding. The oocyte, which is surrounded by epithelial cells (blue) and muscle cells (green), accumulates lipids (red) in the cytoplasm. This accumulation depends on the interaction between a female protein, MISO, and the male hormone 20E.
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