Sentences with phrase «fly midgut»

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Indy was most abundantly expressed in the fat body, midgut, and oenocytes: the principal sites of intermediary metabolism in the fly.

In the fruit fly, the gene is active in fat bodies — which function as the liver in insects — as well as the midgut, antennae, and cells called oenocytes, which appear to store glycogen.

Here, Marianes and Spradling have investigated a type of adult stem cell, known as intestinal stem cells, that resides in the midgut of fruit flies.