A wingless-dependent polar coordinate system in Drosophila imaginal discs - PubMed (original) (raw)

Comparative Study

. 1993 Jan 22;259(5094):484-9.

doi: 10.1126/science.8424170.

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Comparative Study

A wingless-dependent polar coordinate system in Drosophila imaginal discs

J P Couso et al. Science. 1993.

Abstract

The patterning of the imaginal discs in Drosophila melanogaster is a progressive process that, like the patterning of the larval epidermis during embryogenesis, requires the activity of segment polarity genes. One segment polarity gene, wingless, encodes a homolog of the mouse proto-oncogene Wnt-1 and plays a prominent role in the patterning of the larval epidermis and the imaginal discs. However, whereas the function of wingless in the embryo is initially associated with a pattern of stripes along the anteroposterior axis that are part of a Cartesian coordinate system, it is shown here that during imaginal development wingless is associated with a pattern of sectors that provide references for a polar coordinate system homologous to that postulated in a well-known model for the regeneration of insect and vertebrate limbs.

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