Article
echinus, required for interommatidial cell sorting and cell death in the Drosophila pupal retina, encodes a protein with homology to ubiquitin-specific proteases.
BMC developmental biology - 5 Jul 2007
Copeland Jeffrey M, Bosdet Ian, Freeman J Douglas, Guo Ming, Gorski Sharon M, Hay Bruce A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Programmed cell death is used to remove excess cells between ommatidia in the Drosophila pupal retina. This death is required to establish the crystalline, hexagonal packing of ommatidia that characterizes the adult fly eye. In previously described echinus mutants, interommatidial cel...
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