Article
Proneural clusters of achaete-scute expression and the generation of sensory organs in the Drosophila imaginal wing disc.
Genes & development - 1 Jun 1991
Cubas P, de Celis J F, Campuzano S, Modolell J
Abstract excerpt
The proneural genes achaete (ac) and scute (sc) confer to Drosophila epidermal cells the ability to become sensory mother cells (SMCs). In imaginal discs, ac-sc are expressed in groups of cells, the proneural clusters, which are thought to delimit the areas where SMCs arise. We have visualized with the resolution of single cells the initial stages of sensory organ development by following the evolving pattern of...
Topics
- Animals
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Digoxigenin
- Drosophila
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Male
- Multigene Family
- Phenotype
- Sense Organs
- Wings, Animal