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Red genética que define la identidad y función de las células de Kenyon en los cuerpos fungoides de Drosophila
Pei-Chi Chung1, Kai-Yuan Ku1, Sao-Yu Chu1
1Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
eLife
|February 27, 2026
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El estudio identifica Eip93F como un factor de transcripción clave para las células de Kenyon (KC) nacidas tardíamente en el cuerpo fungoide (MB) de Drosophila. Eip93F regula la expresión génica y los canales de calcio, vinculando la identidad de KC con el comportamiento y formando una red con otros TFs.
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