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SUBMITTER: Diaz-de-la-Loza MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6035286 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Developmental cell 20180701 1
Epithelial tissues can elongate in two dimensions by polarized cell intercalation, oriented cell division, or cell shape change, owing to local or global actomyosin contractile forces acting in the plane of the tissue. In addition, epithelia can undergo morphogenetic change in three dimensions. We show that elongation of the wings and legs of Drosophila involves a columnar-to-cuboidal cell shape change that reduces cell height and expands cell width. Remodeling of the apical extracellular matrix ...[more]