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fusomes

fusomes is the plural of fusome.

Meaning of fusome

Noun

fusome (plural fusomes)

  1. A germ cell-specific organelle assembled from membrane skeletal proteins and membranous vesicles.
    • Cystoblasts/cystocytes also divide asymmetrically, and in doing so, the spectrosome evolves into a branched fusome in the 16-cell cyst (5,37), accumulating proteins like Bam, ankyrin, α- and β-spectrins, the adducinlike product of the hu-li tai shao gene (HtsF), dynein (Dhc64C), and Cyclin A...2004, Daryl S. Henderson, Drosophila Cytogenetics Protocols, page 95

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Questions about fusomes

What is fusomes the plural of?
Fusomes is the plural of fusome.

Words near fusomes in the dictionary

  1. fusoid-ventricose
  2. fusokine
  3. fusokines
  4. fusomal
  5. fusome
  6. fusomes
  7. Fuson
  8. Fusong
  9. Fusons
  10. fusor
  11. fusors

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