Figure 8.—
Confocal micrographs of Drosophila egg chambers and nurse cell nuclei. (A) String of egg chambers with different stages labeled. Note five-blob nurse cell nuclei at stage 5. By stage 7 all nuclei appear decondensed (some egg chambers have been reoriented for clarity). (B) Egg chambers at stages 5 and 7 from the two Mcm10 alleles and wt. The five-blob stage is present in all genotypes at stage 5. However, at stage 7 some nuclei in the Mcm10Scim19 background have not decondensed and remain in the five-blob state (see inset).