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1Centre for Developmental Genetics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
Current Biology : CB
|June 14, 2002
Abstract:
Differential activity of Frizzled in the R3/R4 photo-receptors of Drosophila regulates the orientation of ommatidia. New evidence suggests that the cadherins Dachsous and Fat act upstream of Frizzled in this process.