Drosophila dumpy is a gigantic extracellular protein required to maintain tension at epidermal-cuticle attachment sites.
BACKGROUND: Growth and morphogenesis during development depend both on patterning genes, which assign positional information, and on genes that regulate mechanical forces. The dumpy gene of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is an example of the latter class, with mutant phenotypes affecting size...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2000
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