Developmental BiologyGeneticsPeer-reviewed
Degenerating Drosophila Larval Epidermal Cells Drive Thorax Closure
Thamarailingam Athilingam, Saurabh Singh Parihar, Rachita Bhattacharya…·Pradip Sinha
The paper shows that degenerating larval epidermal cells generate pull forces that drive thorax closure in Drosophila by contracting and shrinking, facilitating HE migration and zipping.
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