Flower dooms cells to death

Developmental Cell
Peter Gallant

Abstract

In Drosophila imaginal discs, viable cells are outcompeted by their faster growing neighbors in a process called "cell competition." A new study in this issue of Developmental Cell identifies the membrane protein Flower as being specifically induced in the outcompeted cells and required for their ensuing apoptosis.

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