Figure 4. Male and hermaphrodite L1 larvae.

Figure 4Male and hermaphrodite L1 larvae

At hatching, male and hermaphrodite larvae are anatomically identical apart from a few cells (blue labels). Most sex-specific tissues of the adult are formed from the descendents of blast cells (black labels), that are present in both sexes but express different fates or lineages in each sex. Reprinted with permission from Wormatlas (http://www.wormatlas.org).

From: Hermaphrodite cell-fate specification

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