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Anterior and posterior halves of 6 hour-old embryos were transplanted with or without their central egg yolk filling into the abdomens of adult females.
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It was found that the yolk has no formative or nutritive influence on the differentiation which proceeds normally in the adult milieu.
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This work was supported by the Schweiz. Nationalfonds für wissenschaftliche Forschung.
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Hadorn, E., Müller, G. Has the yolk an influence on the differentiation of embryonic Drosophila blastemas?. W. Roux' Archiv f. Entwicklungsmechanik 174, 333–335 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00579120
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00579120