The morphological changes which take place in the differentiation of the adult Drosophila eye from the larval imaginal disc have been described from a histological and cytological standpoint by Shatoury (1956, 1963) and Shatoury & Waddington (1957). In addition, Gottschewski (1960), Gottschewski & Querner (1961), and Schneider (1964) have studied these processes in eyes and brains in vitro. These latter workers removed eye-antennal anlage with associated structures, and placed them in culture media. Under these conditions, the imaginal discs can apparently undergo most of the normal differentiation processes, finally attaining nearly all of the adult morphology.

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1967
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