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Schistosome egg excretion
A female schistosome excreting an egg through the gonopore. The female schistosome resides in a ventral groove of the male, the gynecophoric canal. The male worm sends a stimulus to regulate female-specific gene expression that in turn controls female reproductive development and subsequent egg production. Osman et al demonstrate that host TGFα can send a signal that is transduced by the schistosome TGFα pathway to regulate the expression of a Gynecophoric Canal Protein that may play a role in worm pairing that is a prerequisite for the male to send a stimulus to the female worm.
Image Credit: Photo by Ahmed Osman.
Citation: (2006) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 2(6) June 2006. PLoS Pathog 2(6): ev02.i06. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v02.i06
Published: June 30, 2006
Copyright: © 2006 Osman et al Osman et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
A female schistosome excreting an egg through the gonopore. The female schistosome resides in a ventral groove of the male, the gynecophoric canal. The male worm sends a stimulus to regulate female-specific gene expression that in turn controls female reproductive development and subsequent egg production. Osman et al demonstrate that host TGFα can send a signal that is transduced by the schistosome TGFα pathway to regulate the expression of a Gynecophoric Canal Protein that may play a role in worm pairing that is a prerequisite for the male to send a stimulus to the female worm.
Image Credit: Photo by Ahmed Osman.