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. 2020 Nov 20;3:699. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-01432-z

Fig. 6. Summary schematic and model.

Fig. 6

Glial granules assembled from Tudor protein scaffold and other germ cell proteins, including Vasa, Polar granule component, and Piwi, function in brain transcriptome regulation. Evolutionarily conserved Piwi/Dpn-positive cells have been identified in the adult Drosophila brain and show remarkably long extensions which may be involved in signal transmission caused by aging, memory formation, or perturbations in the brain milieu such as pathogen invasion.