Article
Roles of wingless in patterning the larval epidermis of Drosophila.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Oct 1991
Bejsovec A, Martinez Arias A
Abstract excerpt
The larval epidermis of Drosophila shows a stereotyped segmentally repeating pattern of cuticular structures. Mutants deficient for the wingless gene product show highly disrupted patterning of the larval cuticle. We have manipulated expression of the wg gene product to assess its role in this patterning process. We present evidence for four distinct phases of wg function in epidermal cells: (1) an early...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Communication
- Cell Polarity
- Drosophila
- Epidermis
- Gene Expression
- Genes
- Larva
- Microscopy, Electron
- Morphogenesis
- Mutation
- Phenotype