...Shigeo Takashima; Manash Paul; Patrick Aghajanian; Amelia Younossi-Hartenstein; Volker Hartenstein All components of the Drosophila intestinal tract, including the endodermal midgut and ectodermal hindgut/Malpighian tubules, maintain populations of dividing stem cells. In the midgut and hindgut...

... mutually exclusive patterns at early embryonic stages give way to co-expression at later stages ( Laugier et al., 2005 ). In contrast to tsh, tio is not expressed in third instar larval or adult tubule cells ( Fig. 2K,L ). The expression of tio/tsh in Malpighian tubules implies an important function...