Tube morphogenesis: no pipe dream in Drosophila
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Imaging and Analysis of Tissue Orientation and Growth Dynamics in the Developing Drosophila Epithelia During Pupal Stages
Published on: June 2, 2020
1Department of Biochemistry/HHMI, B465 Beckman Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5307, USA. vikrams@stanford.edu
Current Biology : CB
|February 21, 2003
Abstract:
Tubular organs have characteristic lumen sizes that are generated during development. Recent studies of tubular systems in Drosophila have implicated intracellular vesicle transport as an important step in lumen expansion.

