Systemic orchestration of cell size throughout the body: Influence of sex and rapamycin exposure in Drosophila melanogaster
Ewa Szlachcic, Anna Maria Łabęcka, Valeriya Privalova, Anna Sikorska, Marcin Czarnołęski
This study examines how TOR/insulin pathway activity and sex influence cell size across multiple tissues in Drosophila melanogaster, showing that rapamycin reduces cell size systemically while females have larger cells than males.
Biology Letters · Mar 1, 2023Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology