The eye-antennal disc of Drosophila gives rise to numerous adult tissues, including the
compound eyes, ocelli, antennae, maxillary palps and surrounding head capsule. The fate …

A common occurrence in metazoan development is the rise of multiple tissues/organs from a
single uniform precursor field. One example is the anterior forebrain of vertebrates, which …

Generating cellular heterogeneity is crucial to the development of complex organs. Organ-
fate selector genes and signalling pathways generate cellular diversity by subdividing and …

The eye–antennal disc of Drosophila is serving a guiding role in the studies of how eye
identity is specified, as well as how the retina is patterned. However, this system also holds a …

Organ formation requires early specification of the groups of cells that will give rise to
specific structures. The Wingless protein plays an important part in this regional specification …

The eye-antennal disc of Drosophila is composed of three cell layers: a columnar epithelium
called the disc proper (DP); an overlying sheet of squamous cells called the peripodial …

A general question in development is how do adjacent primordia adopt different
developmental fates and stably maintain their distinct fates? In Drosophila melanogaster, the …

Differentiation of the Drosophila compound eye from the eye imaginal disc is a progressive
process: columns of cells successively differentiate in a posterior to anterior sequence …

During animal development, accurate control of tissue specification and growth are critical to
generate organisms of reproducible shape and size. The eye-antennal disc epithelium of …

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