The early history of the eye-antennal disc of Drosophila melanogaster

BP Weasner, JP Kumar - Genetics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Shhedding New Light on the Role of Hedgehog Signaling in Corneal Wound Healing

X Zhang, S Mélik-Parsadaniantz, C Baudouin… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The cornea, an anterior ocular tissue that notably serves to protect the eye from external
insults and refract light, requires constant epithelium renewal and efficient healing following …

Peripodial adherens junctions regulate Ajuba-Yorkie signaling to preserve fly eye morphology

DF DeSantis, SJ Neal, Q Zhou, F Pignoni - Biology Open, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
The Drosophila eye develops from the larval eye disc, a flattened vesicle comprised of
continuous retinal and peripodial epithelia (PE). The PE is an epithelium that plays a …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of Sonic Hedgehog on the Regeneration of Epidermal Texture Patterns

K Takaya, N Aramaki-Hattori, S Sakai, K Okabe, K Kishi - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wounds on embryonic mouse fetuses regenerate up to embryonic day (E) 13, but after E14,
the pattern is lost and a visible scar remains. We hypothesized that the sonic hedgehog …

[HTML][HTML] A CUT&RUN protocol to determine patterns of epigenetic marks in imaginal discs of Drosophila

BP Weasner, HE Brown, R Policastro, BM Weasner… - STAR protocols, 2023 - Elsevier
Summary Cleavage Under Targets & Release Using Nucleases (CUT&RUN) sequencing is
a technique used to study gene regulation. The protocol presented here has been used …