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The Salivary Gland of Chironomus (Diptera): A Model System for the Study of Cell Differentiation

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Biochemical Differentiation in Insect Glands

Part of the book series: Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation ((RESULTS,volume 8))

Abstract

Among the various types of differentiated insect tissues, Chironomid salivary glands provide an especially fortunate combination of features. The glands consist of a limited number of very large cells that are committed to the continuous synthesis of specific proteins. Extensive polytenization renders their chromosomes visible in unChapaulleled detail during interphase so that units of genetic function can be studied at the level of the light-microscope. A gland comprises two or more related cell types that exhibit minor differences in terms of cell morphology, chromomere activity and protein synthesis and thus provide excellent tools for comChapautive studies of differentiated states in the same tissue.

Dedicated to Professor H. G. Callan, F.R.S., on occasion of his 60th birthday.

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Grossbach, U. (1977). The Salivary Gland of Chironomus (Diptera): A Model System for the Study of Cell Differentiation. In: Beermann, W. (eds) Biochemical Differentiation in Insect Glands. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37332-2_3

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