Article
Strabismus, a novel gene that regulates tissue polarity and cell fate decisions in Drosophila.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Mar 1998
Wolff T, Rubin G M
Abstract excerpt
Polarity in the Drosophila eye is manifested as a dorsoventral reflection of two chiral forms of the individual unit eyes, or ommatidia. These forms fall on opposite sides of a dorsoventral midline of mirror symmetry known as the equator. Polarity is established in the eye imaginal disc as cells...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Body Patterning
- Conserved Sequence
- Drosophila
- Drosophila Proteins
- Evolution, Molecular
- Eye
- Female
- Genes, Insect
- Insect Proteins
- Male
- Membrane Proteins
