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Apposition of iroquois expressing and non-expressing cells leads to cell sorting and fold formation in the Drosophila imaginal wing disc.
BMC developmental biology - 19 Sept 2007
Villa-Cuesta Eugenia, González-Pérez Esther, Modolell Juan
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BACKGROUND: The organization of the different tissues of an animal requires mechanisms that regulate cell-cell adhesion to promote and maintain the physical separation of adjacent cell populations. In the Drosophila imaginal wing disc the iroquois homeobox genes are expressed in the notum anlage...
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