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Second chromosome genes required for heart development in Drosophila melanogaster.
Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000) - 1 Oct 2007
Tao Ye, Christiansen Audrey E, Schulz Robert A
Abstract excerpt
Heart development is an evolutionarily conserved process. The cardiac organ of Drosophila melanogaster is the dorsal vessel, a linear contractile tissue with cellular and morphogenetic similarities to the primitive heart tube formed at an early stage of vertebrate heart formation. Abundant evidence shows comparable intercellular signaling pathways and transcription factor networks are utilized in Drosophila and...
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