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Hemocytes are essential for wing maturation in Drosophila melanogaster.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Aug 2001
Kiger J A, Natzle J E, Green M M
Abstract excerpt
Newly eclosed flies have wings that are highly folded and compact. Within an hour, each wing has expanded, the dorsal and ventral cuticular surfaces bonding to one another to form the mature wing. To initiate a dissection of this process, we present studies of two mutant phenotypes. First, the batone mutant blocks wing expansion, a behavior that is shown to have a mutant focus anterior to the wing in the...
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