A Quantitative Method to Analyze Drosophila Pupal Eye Patterning

BACKGROUND: The Drosophila pupal eye has become a popular paradigm for understanding morphogenesis and tissue patterning. Correct rearrangement of cells between ommatidia is required to organize the ommatidial array across the eye field. This requires cell movement, cell death, changes to cell-cell...

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Autores principales: Johnson, Ruth I., Cagan, Ross L.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737617/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19753121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007008
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: The Drosophila pupal eye has become a popular paradigm for understanding morphogenesis and tissue patterning. Correct rearrangement of cells between ommatidia is required to organize the ommatidial array across the eye field. This requires cell movement, cell death, changes to cell-cell adhesion, signaling and fate specification. METHODOLOGY: We describe a method to quantitatively assess mis-patterning of the Drosophila pupal eye and objectively calculate a ‘mis-patterning score’ characteristic of a specific genotype. This entails step-by-step scoring of specific traits observed in pupal eyes dissected 40–42 hours after puparium formation and subsequent statistical analysis of this data. SIGNIFICANCE: This method provides an unbiased quantitative score of mis-patterning severity that can be used to compare the impact of different genetic mutations on tissue patterning.

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