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Figure 5: The regulation of some genes differs between the wing (left) and haltere (right) imaginal discs of Drosophila and is under the control of the Ultrabithorax Hox gene.
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Drosophila has two true wings that develop from imaginal discs of 50,000 cells and two smaller balancing organs called halteres that form from imaginal discs of 10,000 cells.
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Dr. Su and her collaborators at University of Colorado, Boulder used ionizing radiation (IR) to induce DNA damage and apoptosis in cells of the wing imaginal disc, the immature form of the fly's wings.
Ubx reduces the size of the haltere imaginal disc relative to that of the wing by decreasing the production and mobility of growth - promoting morphogens (for example, Dpp).
Dependence of Drosophila wing imaginal disc cytonemes on Decapentaplegic.
Regulation of Drosophila matrix metalloprotease Mmp2 is essential for wing imaginal disc: trachea association and air sac tubulogenesis.
Wingless signaling and the control of cell shape in Drosophila wing imaginal discs.
Drosophila imaginal discs, simple epithelial invaginations that grow one thousand fold in mass and cell number, are probably one of the best model systems to analyze at the genetic and molecular level the control of size in a growing epithelium.