Integrating body and organ size in Drosophila: recent advances and outstanding problems

Over the past two decades, fundamental strides in physiology and genetics have allowed us to finally grasp the developmental mechanisms regulating body size, primarily in one model organism: the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In Drosophila, as in all animals, final body size is regulated by the...

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Main Authors: Christen Kerry Mirth, Alexander William Shingleton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Endocrinology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fendo.2012.00049/full