... remain unknown. Here, we demonstrate that Drosophila CAP regulates the organization of two actin-rich structures in Drosophila : muscle attachment sites (MASs), which connect somatic muscles to the body wall; and scolopale cells, which form an integral component of the fly chordotonal organs and mediate...

..., the underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms remain poorly understood. A particularly intimate association between accessory cells and neurons is found in insect chordotonal organs. We have found that the cap cell, one of two accessory cells of v'ch1, a chordotonal organ in the Drosophila embryo, strongly...

...Takuma Yamada; Masataka Okabe; Yasushi Hiromi Inductive patterning mechanisms often use negative regulators to coordinate the effects and efficiency of induction. During Spitz EGF-mediated neuronal induction in the Drosophila compound eye and chordotonal organs,Spitz causes activation of Ras...

... of Biologists 2001 Drosophila melanogaster spalt Chordotonal organ dEGFR PNS Cell migration Oenocytes The evolutionary conserved spalt genes encode for C 2 H 2 zinc finger transcription factors involved in numerous developmental processes. In Drosophila melanogaster , two members...

... conserved cysteine-rich region. In addition to the embryonic tracheal system, sprouty is also expressed in other tissues including the developing eye imaginal disc, embryonic chordotonal organ precursors and the midline glia. In each of these tissues, EGF receptor signaling is known to participate...

...Yan Sun; Lily Yeh Jan; Yuh Nung Jan ABSTRACT atonal is a proneural gene for the development of Drosophila chordotonal organs and photoreceptor cells. We show here that atonal expression is controlled by modular enhancer elements located 5′ or 3′ to the atonal -coding sequences. During chordotonal...

... ) 29 11 1996 © 1997 by Company of Biologists 1997 Drosophila sensory organ precursor chordotonal organ peripheral nervous system rhomboid EGF receptor argos atonal The close regulation of specific numbers of cells plays an important role in the generation...