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Cell adhesion and cortex contractility determine cell patterning in the Drosophila retina.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Nov 2007

Käfer Jos, Hayashi Takashi, Marée Athanasius F M, Carthew Richard W, Graner François

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Because of the resemblance of many epithelial tissues to densely packed soap bubbles, it has been suggested that surface minimization, which drives soap bubble packing, could be governing cell packing as well. We test this by modeling the shape of the cells in a Drosophila retina ommatidium. We use the observed configurations and shapes in wild-type flies, as well as in flies with different numbers of cells per...

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PMID: 18003929
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0704235104
PMCID: PMC2141814

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