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The Drosophila planar polarity gene multiple wing hairs directly regulates the actin cytoskeleton.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 15 Jul 2015
Lu Qiuheng, Schafer Dorothy A, Adler Paul N
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionarily conserved frizzled/starry night (fz/stan) pathway regulates planar cell polarity (PCP) in vertebrates and invertebrates. This pathway has been extensively studied in the Drosophila wing, where it is manifested by an array of distally pointing cuticular hairs. Using in vivo imaging we found that, early in hair growth, cells have multiple actin bundles and hairs that subsequently fuse into a...
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