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1Centre for Developmental Genetics, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, S10 2TN, Sheffield, UK.
Current Biology : CB
|July 27, 2001
Abstract:
Cells in the Drosophila wing are polarised to produce a single distally pointing trichome. Recent studies show that this requires the recruitment of the Dishevelled protein to the distal cell edge, and the correct levels of Rho-associated kinase activity.