Image of the Day: Fruit Fly Heart
Drosophila pumps blood through its body with a long, tube-shaped muscle.
May 20, 2013
Jianbo Na and Ross Cagan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, PLOS Genetics, doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003175
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