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Margherita Battistara

University of CambridgeORCID 0000-0002-4962-1305Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:Drosophila· 2 Assay:imaging· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1

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Developmental BiologybioRxivPreprintJul 3, 2026

Morphospace analysis reveals divergent cellular behaviours driving tissue internalisation during insect gastrulation

Margherita Battistara, Wolfram Pönisch, Matthew Alan Benton, Ewa K. Paluch

The paper compares cellular behaviours during insect gastrulation, finding divergent mechanisms between Drosophila and Tribolium, with nuclear crowding influencing internalisation modes.

DOI 10.64898/2026.06.30.735526

Drosophilazebrafish

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Developmental BiologyeLifePeer-reviewedDec 16, 2022

A timer gene network is spatially regulated by the terminal system in the Drosophila embryo

Erik Clark, Margherita Battistara, Matthew Alan Benton

The paper identifies 11 new regulatory interactions governing timer gene expression in Drosophila embryos, showing how a dynamic Tailless gradient modulates their cross-regulatory module to define the tail region.

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