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SUBMITTER: Chowdhary S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5511145 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chowdhary Sayali S Tomer Darshika D Dubal Dnyanesh D Sambre Devashree D Rikhy Richa R
Scientific reports 20170714 1
Mitochondria are inherited maternally as globular and immature organelles in metazoan embryos. We have used the Drosophila blastoderm embryo to characterize their morphology, distribution and functions in embryogenesis. We find that mitochondria are relatively small, dispersed and distinctly distributed along the apico-basal axis in proximity to microtubules by motor protein transport. Live imaging, photobleaching and photoactivation analyses of mitochondrially targeted GFP show that they are mo ...[more]