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Imaging of Cell Shape Alteration and Cell Movement in Drosophila Gastrulation Using DE-cadherin Reporter Transgenic Flies
Published on: December 29, 2016
Drosophila gastrulation: identification of a missing link
Maria Leptin1, Markus Affolter
1Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, Weyertal 121, D-50931 Cologne, Germany. mleptin@uni-koeln.de
Current Biology : CB
|June 19, 2004
Abstract:
Drosophila gastrulation serves as a model system to elucidate the genetic and molecular mechanisms involved in morphogenetic movements. The ligand of the FGF receptor Heartless, which is involved in mesoderm movement, has now been isolated and shown to be a link between a morphogen gradient and cell behavior.

