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shotgun encodes Drosophila E-cadherin and is preferentially required during cell rearrangement in the neurectoderm and other morphogenetically active epithelia.
Genes & development - 15 Mar 1996
Tepass U, Gruszynski-DeFeo E, Haag T A, Omatyar L, Török T, Hartenstein V
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Adhesion molecules of the cadherin superfamily have an important role during vertebrate development. The DE-cadherin homolog DE-cadherin is the first classic cadherin isolated from invertebrates. We report here that DE-cadherin is encoded by the shotgun (shg) gene. shg is expressed in most embryo...
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