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SUBMITTER: Cetera M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4241503 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cetera Maureen M Ramirez-San Juan Guillermina R GR Oakes Patrick W PW Lewellyn Lindsay L Fairchild Michael J MJ Tanentzapf Guy G Gardel Margaret L ML Horne-Badovinac Sally S
Nature communications 20141121
Tissues use numerous mechanisms to change shape during development. The Drosophila egg chamber is an organ-like structure that elongates to form an elliptical egg. During elongation the follicular epithelial cells undergo a collective migration that causes the egg chamber to rotate within its surrounding basement membrane. Rotation coincides with the formation of a 'molecular corset', in which actin bundles in the epithelium and fibrils in the basement membrane are all aligned perpendicular to t ...[more]