Extracellular spreading of Wingless is required for Drosophila oogenesis
Xiaoxi Wang, Kimberly S. LaFever, Indrayani Waghmare, Andrea W. Page
The paper shows that Wg spreads extracellularly in the Drosophila ovary to promote follicle stem cell proliferation, as demonstrated by the fertility defects in hemizygous NRT-wg/null flies.
PLoS Genetics · Apr 2, 2021Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology