Identification of a new stem cell population that generates Drosophila flight muscles

How myoblast populations are regulated for the formation of muscles of different sizes is an essentially unanswered question. The large flight muscles of Drosophila develop from adult muscle progenitor (AMP) cells set-aside embryonically. The thoracic segments are all allotted the same small AMP num...

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Main Authors: Rajesh D Gunage, Heinrich Reichert, K VijayRaghavan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2014-08-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
Wnt
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/03126