When neutral marked clones are induced in the ovary, the proportion of germaria carrying marked somatic stem cells 3 weeks after clone induction is around 70% of that seen one week after clone induction. However, for Med24 homozygous clones, only 11% of the germaria carrying marked somatic stem cells at 1 week after induction still do so at 2 weeks after induction. By 3 weeks, no marked somatic stem cells are present in germaria.
Med24 homozygous clones in the ovarian follicle cells contain about 70% the number of cells as their wild-type twin-spot clones.
Med24 has follicle stem cell | somatic clone phenotype, suppressible | partially by BacA\p35UAS.cUa/Scer\GAL4Tub.PU
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