Localized requirements for windbeutel and pipe reveal a dorsoventral prepattern within the follicular epithelium of the Drosophila ovary.

doi:10.1016/s0092-8674(00)81576-7

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Localized requirements for windbeutel and pipe reveal a dorsoventral prepattern within the follicular epithelium of the Drosophila ovary.

Cell - 17 Apr 1998

Nilson L A, Schüpbach T

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Establishment of dorsoventral polarity within the Drosophila embryo requires extraembryonic positional information generated during oogenesis. The genes windbeutel, pipe, and nudel are required within the somatic follicle cells of the ovary for production of this spatial cue. Using a novel follic...

Topics

Animals
Body Patterning
Drosophila
Drosophila Proteins
Egg Proteins
Epithelium
Female
Genes, Insect
Insect Proteins
Mutation
Ovary
Phenotype

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