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NOTCH and the Patterning of Ommatidial Founder Cells in the Developing Drosophila Eye

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Drosophila Eye Development

Part of the book series: Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation ((RESULTS,volume 37))

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Each Drosophila compound eye is composed of hundreds of similar ommatidia, or unit eyes. Ommatidial differentiation begins at the posterior margin of the eye imaginal disc and extends more anteriorly as a “morphogenetic furrow” sweeps across the eye disc. Anterior to the position reached by the morphogenetic furrow, cells are proliferative and undifferentiated. Posterior to the morphogenetic furrow, ommatidia differentiate in dorso-ventral columns (Fig. 1; Wolff and Ready 1993).

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Baker, N.E. (2002). NOTCH and the Patterning of Ommatidial Founder Cells in the Developing Drosophila Eye. In: Moses, K. (eds) Drosophila Eye Development. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45398-7_4

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