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Homeotic selector genes control the patterning of seven-up expressing cells in the Drosophila dorsal vessel.
Mechanisms of development - 1 Sept 2005
Ryan Kathryn M, Hoshizaki Deborah K, Cripps Richard M
Abstract excerpt
The linear cardiac tube of Drosophila, the dorsal vessel, is an important model organ for the study of cardiac specification and patterning in vertebrates. In Drosophila, the Hox segmentation gene abdominal-A (abd-A) is required for the specification of a functionally distinct heart region at the posterior of the dorsal vessel, from which blood is pumped anteriorly through a tube termed the aorta. Since we have...
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