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The Canoe protein is necessary in adherens junctions for development of ommatidial architecture in the Drosophila compound eye.
Cell and tissue research - 1 Dec 1999
Matsuo T, Takahashi K, Suzuki E, Yamamoto D
Abstract excerpt
Rhabdomeres of the Drosophila melanogaster canoemisl mutant ommatidia were twisted, branched, and often fused to each other. A considerable proportion of rhabdomeres were found to have fallen below the retinal basement membrane. Electron-microscopic observations of the mutant ommatidia revealed that microvilli, the subcellular structures composing the rhabdome, were normal. As was the case with partial...
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