The Drosophila wing imaginal disc is a tissue of undifferentiated cells that are precursors of
the wing and most of the notum of the adult fly. The wing disc first forms during …

Rhododendron delavayi Franch. is globally famous as an ornamental plant. Its distribution in
southwest China covers several different habitats and environments. However, not much …

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been used for modeling cancer and as an in vivo
tool for the validation and/or development of cancer therapeutics. The impetus for the use of …

Appendages are external projections of the body that serve the animal for locomotion,
feeding, or environment exploration. The appendages of the fruit fly Drosophila …

As a central model for morphogen action during animal development, the bone
morphogenetic protein 2/4 (BMP2/4)-like ligand Decapentaplegic (Dpp) is proposed to form …

Due to the complexity of genotype–phenotype relationships, simultaneous analyses of
genomic associations with multiple traits will be more powerful and informative than a series …

How morphogen gradients control patterning and growth in developing tissues remains
largely unknown due to lack of tools manipulating morphogen gradients. Here, we generate …

Epithelial sheets define organ architecture during development. Here, we employed an
iterative multiscale computational modeling and quantitative experimental approach to …

The question of how the physical dimensions of animal organs are specified has long
fascinated both experimentalists and computational scientists working in the field of …

The evolution of powered flight is a major innovation that has facilitated the success of
insects. Previously, studies of birds, bats, and insects have detected molecular signatures of …