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The gap junction protein Innexin3 is required for eye disc growth in Drosophila.
Developmental biology - 15 May 2017
Richard Mélisande, Bauer Reinhard, Tavosanis Gaia, Hoch Michael
Abstract excerpt
The Drosophila compound eye develops from a bilayered epithelial sac composed of an upper peripodial epithelium layer and a lower disc proper, the latter giving rise to the eye itself. During larval stages, complex signalling events between the layers contribute to the control of cell proliferation and differentiation in the disc. Previous work in our lab established the gap junction protein Innexin2 (Inx2) as...
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