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Preferential adhesion maintains separation of ommatidia in the Drosophila eye.
Developmental biology - 15 Aug 2010
Bao Sujin, Fischbach Karl-Friedrich, Corbin Victoria, Cagan Ross L
Abstract excerpt
In the Drosophila eye, neighboring ommatidia are separated by inter-ommatidial cells (IOCs). How this ommatidial spacing emerges during eye development is not clear. Here we demonstrate that four adhesion molecules of the Irre cell recognition module (IRM) family play a redundant role in maintaining separation of ommatidia. The four IRM proteins are divided into two groups: Kirre and Rst are expressed in IOCs,...
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