Abstract The Decapentaplegic and Notch signaling pathways are thought to direct regional
specification in the Drosophila eye-antennal epithelium by controlling the expression of …

The Drosophila compound eye is formed by about 800 ommatidia or simple eyes, packed in
an almost crystalline lattice. The precise ommatidial arrangement makes the fly eye …

The Drosophila eye is one of nature's most beautiful structures and one of its most useful. It
has emerged as a favored model for understanding the processes that direct cell fate …

The compound eye of the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster is composed of 800 unit eyes
called ommatidia, which are composed of eight neural photoreceptor cells and 12 …

Organogenesis involves an initial surge of cell proliferation, leading to differentiation. This is
followed by cell death in order to remove extra cells. During early development, there is little …

Organ development is a complex process in which the activity of scores of interacting
transcription factors and signaling pathways need to be integrated with proliferative growth …

The Drosophila compound eye has long served as an outstanding model system to study
many processes, including cell fate specification, cell division, cell growth and cell death. In …

The formation of different structures in Drosophila depends on the combined activities of
selector genes and signaling pathways. For instance, the antenna requires the selector …

With the passing of the furrow over a uniformly equivalent group of cells, a spectacular array
of cell types, each different in structure and function arises in the developing eye disc of …

A pair of eye-antennal imaginal discs give rise to nearly all external structures of the adult
Drosophila head including the compound eyes, ocelli, antennae, maxillary palps, head …