Article
Identifying a common cause of the loser cell status in Drosophila melanogaster
2019-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Cell competition is the process whereby less fit cells termed ~losers~ are selectively eliminated from a tissue by their fitter neighbors - or ~ winners.~ This sacrifice of aberrant cells is thought to have evolved at the advent of multicellularity to enforce cell co-operativity and ensure the fitness of the host organism. Accumulating evidence over the last 40 years has suggested key roles for cell competition du...
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- Literature Corpus work
- da02254c-314b-549c-9c45-2bd9bcb6f60f
- DOI
- 10.17863/cam.36955