Drosophila tracheal system development

Drosophila tracheal system is a model system for stochasticity in developmental gene regulatory networks…

Render of the Drosophila larval tracheal system. Purple color highlights the dorsal metameres that serve as the model system for stochasticity in developmental gene regulatory networks.

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Mitotic waves in Drosophila embryos

Synchronization of cell cycles is an important feature of developing Drosophila embryos…

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Drosophila embryo germ cell budding

The primordial germ cells are the first cells to form in the Drosophila embryo. Germ cell formation is controlled by the activity of germ granules, ribonuribonucleoprotein particles that locally control translation. Here we can see that germ granule direct the activity of the F-actin cytoskeleton, promoting primordial germ cell formation through a process called budding. 


Germ cell budding from the posterior pole is controlled by germ granules (green) via F-actin (magenta). Scale bar = 10μm