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Imaging Cell Shape Change in Living Drosophila Embryos
Published on: March 30, 2011
Drosophila morphogenesis: follow-my-leader in epithelia
1Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Universität zu Köln, Germany. eknust@biolan.uni-koeln.de
Current Biology : CB
|April 1, 1996
Abstract:
The shape of an organism largely depends on movements of epithelial sheets during embryogenesis. The discovery of a second MAPK kinase in Drosophila provides new insights into mechanisms that control the coordinated movement of epithelial cells.
