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A novel mutant phenotype implicates dicephalic in cyst formation in the Drosophila ovary

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dc.creator McCaffrey, Ruth
dc.creator St Johnston, Daniel
dc.creator González-Reyes, Acaimo
dc.date 2008-05-07T14:52:48Z
dc.date 2008-05-07T14:52:48Z
dc.date 2006-04
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:11:40Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:11:40Z
dc.identifier Developmental Dynamics 235(4): 908-917 (2006)
dc.identifier 1058-8388
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/4073
dc.identifier 10.1002/dvdy.20620
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/4073
dc.description Final full-text version available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.20620.-- Published online 28 October 2005 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com).
dc.description The establishment of polarity in Drosophila requires the correct specification of the oocyte in early stages of oogenesis, its positioning at the posterior of the egg chamber, and signalling events between the oocyte and the adjacent posterior follicle cells. As a consequence, the anterior-posterior and the dorsal-ventral axes are fixed. The posterior localisation of the oocyte depends on cadherin-mediated adhesion between the oocyte and the follicle cells. Here we show that dicephalic mutants affect the posterior positioning of the oocyte without interfering with oocyte specification in the germarium. Unlike other mutants that also affect the posterior placement of the oocyte, dicephalic mutants affect neither gurken expression nor karyosome formation during meiosis. By analysing in detail the mutant phenotypes of dicephalic, we find that cyst formation in mutant germaria is defective and that it shares some similarities with cysts that lack DE-cadherin in the germline cells. We propose a model in which dicephalic is involved in the proper adhesion between the oocyte and the somatic follicle cells.
dc.description Grant sponsors: EC Marie Curie Programme; Medical Research Council (UK); Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología; Grant number: BMC2003-01512; Grant sponsor: Junta de Andalucía; Grant number: CVI-280; Grant sponsor: Wellcome Trust (UK).
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher John Wiley & Sons
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.20620
dc.rights closedAccess
dc.subject Drosophila oogenesis
dc.subject Dicephalic
dc.subject Oocyte positioning
dc.subject Pattern formation
dc.title A novel mutant phenotype implicates dicephalic in cyst formation in the Drosophila ovary
dc.type Artículo


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