Animal development: crowd control

Current Biology : CB
Buzz Baum

Abstract

To shape a developing animal, individual cell movements must be coordinated over long distances. Two recent studies help show how this is achieved during convergence and extension of the Drosophila germ-band, where polarity within the plane of the embryonic epithelium biases junction remodeling to polarize cell intercalation.

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Oct 3, 2006·Developmental Cell·J Todd BlankenshipJennifer A Zallen

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