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Fate map of the distal portion of Drosophila proboscis as inferred from the expression and mutations of basic patterning genes.
Mechanisms of development - 1 Dec 2006
Yasunaga Keiichiro, Saigo Kaoru, Kojima Tetsuya
Abstract excerpt
The late-third-instar labial disc is comprised of two disc-proper cell layers, one representing mainly the ventral half of the anterior compartment (L-layer) and the other, the dorsal half of the anterior compartment and most, if not all, of the posterior compartment (M-layer). In the L-layer, Distal-less represses homothorax whereas no Distal-less-dependent homothorax repression occurs in the M-layer where...
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