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A role for Wnts in morpho-genesis and tissue polarity

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Recent studies have shown that secreted Wnt proteins control morphogenetic movements in fish and frog embryos. The analysis of Dishevelled, a cytoplasmic mediator of Wnt signalling, reveals unexpected similarity between gastrulation in vertebrates and polarization of cells in Drosophila epithelia.

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  1. Sergei Sokol is in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Aveenue,, Boston, 02215, Massachusetts, USA

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Sokol, S. A role for Wnts in morpho-genesis and tissue polarity. Nat Cell Biol 2, E124–E125 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35017136

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