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SUBMITTER: Sano H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3530444 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sano Hiroko H Kunwar Prabhat S PS Renault Andrew D AD Barbosa Vitor V Clark Ivan B N IB Ishihara Shuji S Sugimura Kaoru K Lehmann Ruth R
PloS one 20121226 12
Organs develop distinctive morphologies to fulfill their unique functions. We used Drosophila embryonic gonads as a model to study how two different cell lineages, primordial germ cells (PGCs) and somatic gonadal precursors (SGPs), combine to form one organ. We developed a membrane GFP marker to image SGP behaviors live. These studies show that a combination of SGP cell shape changes and inward movement of anterior and posterior SGPs leads to the compaction of the spherical gonad. This process i ...[more]