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SUBMITTER: Sonal
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4169241 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sonal Sidhaye Jaydeep J Phatak Mandar M Banerjee Shamik S Mulay Aditya A Deshpande Ojas O Bhide Sourabh S Jacob Tressa T Gehring Ines I Nuesslein-Volhard Christiane C Sonawane Mahendra M
PLoS genetics 20140918 9
The epidermis is a stratified epithelium, which forms a barrier to maintain the internal milieu in metazoans. Being the outermost tissue, growth of the epidermis has to be strictly coordinated with the growth of the embryo. The key parameters that determine tissue growth are cell number and cell size. So far, it has remained unclear how the size of epidermal cells is maintained and whether it contributes towards epidermal homeostasis. We have used genetic analysis in combination with cellular im ...[more]