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The wingless signaling pathway is directly involved in Drosophila heart development.
Developmental biology - 10 Jul 1996
Park M, Wu X, Golden K, Axelrod J D, Bodmer R
Abstract excerpt
Heart development in both vertebrates and Drosophila is initiated by bilaterally symmetrical primordia that may be of equivalent embryological origin: the anterior lateral plate mesoderm in vertebrates and the dorsal-most mesoderm in arthropods. These mesodermal progenitors then merge into a heart tube at the ventral midline (vertebrates) or the dorsal midline (Drosophila). These observations suggest that there...
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