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The formation of syncytia within the visceral musculature of the Drosophila midgut is dependent on duf, sns and mbc.
Mechanisms of development - 1 Jan 2002
Klapper Robert, Stute Christiana, Schomaker Oliver, Strasser Thomas, Janning Wilfried, Renkawitz-Pohl Renate, Holz Anne
Abstract excerpt
The visceral musculature of the Drosophila midgut consists of an inner layer of circular and an outer layer of longitudinal muscles. Here, we show that the circular muscles are organised as binucleate syncytia that persist through metamorphosis. At stage 11, prior to the onset of the fusion processes, we detected two classes of myoblasts within the visceral trunk mesoderm. One class expresses the founder-cell...
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