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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster
SUBMITTER: Guillaume Junion
PROVIDER: E-TABM-297 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Genes & development 20071201 23
Correct diversification of cell types during development ensures the formation of functional organs. The evolutionarily conserved homeobox genes from ladybird/Lbx family were found to act as cell identity genes in a number of embryonic tissues. A prior genetic analysis showed that during Drosophila muscle and heart development ladybird is required for the specification of a subset of muscular and cardiac precursors. To learn how ladybird genes exert their cell identity functions we performed mus ...[more]