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Morphogenesis: FGF branches out
1Department of Anatomy, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX, UK. helen.skaer@anat.ox.ac.uk
Current Biology : CB
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
Signalling via tissue-specific receptors for fibroblast growth factor is important in tracheal branching and mesodermal patterning in Drosophila; both processes may involve a common primary response - detachment and directed migration of the target cells - that is conserved from worms to mammals.