Article
The relationship of decapentaplegic and engrailed expression in Drosophila imaginal disks: do these genes mark the anterior-posterior compartment boundary?
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Sept 1991
Raftery L A, Sanicola M, Blackman R K, Gelbart W M
Abstract excerpt
Imaginal disks, the primordia of the adult appendages in Drosophila, are divided into anterior and posterior compartments. However, the developmental role of such compartments remains unclear. The expression of decapentaplegic (dpp), a pattern formation gene required for imaginal disk development, has the intriguing property of being expressed in a line at or near the boundary between these compartments. Here, we...
Topics
- Animals
- Drosophila
- Gene Expression
- Genes
- Immunohistochemistry
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Morphogenesis
- Mutation
- Wings, Animal