Since the discovery of a single white‐eyed male in a population of red eyed flies over 100
years ago (Morgan, 1910), the compound eye of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has …

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 phenomenon of tissue fluidity—cells' ability to rearrange relative to each other in
confluent tissues—has been linked to several morphogenetic processes and diseases, yet …

Lattice cells (LCs) in the developing Drosophila retina change shape before attaining final
form. Previously, we showed that repeated contraction and expansion of apical cell contacts …

A complex network of transcription factor interactions propagates across the larval eye disc
to establish columns of evenly-spaced R8 precursor cells, the founding cells of Drosophila …

The Drosophila larva has been used to investigate many processes in cell biology, including
morphogenesis, physiology and responses to drugs and new therapeutic compounds …

Apical constriction (AC) is a widely utilized mechanism of cell shape change whereby
epithelial cells transform from a cylindrical to conical shape, which can facilitate …

In the Drosophila eye, neighboring ommatidia are separated by inter-ommatidial cells
(IOCs). How this ommatidial spacing emerges during eye development is not clear. Here we …

We highlight recent progress in understanding cadherin and integrin function in the model
organism Drosophila. New functions for these adhesion receptors continue to be discovered …

Contractile forces eliminate cell contacts in many morphogenetic processes. However,
mechanisms that balance contractile forces to promote subtler remodeling remain unknown …