Merlin is required for coordinating proliferation of two stem cell lineages in the Drosophila testis

Abstract Although the mechanisms that balance self-renewal and differentiation of a stem cell lineage have been extensively studied, it remains poorly understood how tissues that contain multiple stem cell lineages maintain balanced proliferation among distinct lineages: when stem cells of a particu...

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Main Authors: Mayu Inaba, Dorothy R. Sorenson, Matt Kortus, Viktoria Salzmann, Yukiko M. Yamashita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02768-z