Developmental Biology: Decapentaplegic Controls Growth at a Distance

Jean-Paul Vincent; Ruta Ziukaite; Cyrille Alexandre

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.061

Developmental Biology: Decapentaplegic Controls Growth at a Distance

Curr Biol. 2016 Mar 7;26(5):R209-12. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.061.

Authors

Jean-Paul Vincent¹, Ruta Ziukaite², Cyrille Alexandre²

Affiliations

¹ The Francis Crick Institute, Mill Hill Laboratory, The Ridgeway, London NW7 1AA, UK. Electronic address: jp.vincent@crick.ac.uk.
² The Francis Crick Institute, Mill Hill Laboratory, The Ridgeway, London NW7 1AA, UK.

PMID: 26954443
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.061

Abstract

Decapentaplegic has long been thought to be a morphogen that controls patterning and growth in Drosophila wings, but hard evidence for the requisite long-range action has only now come from two new studies.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Body Patterning
Developmental Biology
Drosophila / genetics
Drosophila Proteins / genetics*
Drosophila melanogaster / genetics
Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
Signal Transduction
Wings, Animal*

Substances

Drosophila Proteins