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Extracellular matrix assembly stress drives Drosophila central nervous system morphogenesis
Eduardo Serna-Morales, Besaiz J. Sánchez-Sánchez, Stefania Marcotti…·Brian Marc Stramer
This study shows that extracellular matrix assembly stress actively drives morphogenesis in Drosophila ventral nerve cord by generating surface tension during collagen-IV network formation.