Fringe is essential for mirror symmetry and morphogenesis in the Drosophila eye

Kyung-Ok Cho and Kwang-Wook Choi ()
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Kyung-Ok Cho: Baylor College of Medicine
Kwang-Wook Choi: Baylor College of Medicine

Nature, 1998, vol. 396, issue 6708, 272-276

Abstract: Abstract An early event in Drosophila eye development is the division of the eye disc into dorsoventral domains. The dorsoventral pattern is displayed in the adult compound eye as a distinct mirror symmetry across the dorsoventral midline or equator1,2. The dorsoventral axis is also implicated in organizing early development of the eye, as retinal differentiation is initiated at the posterior dorsoventral midline3. Here we show that Fringe is expressed specifically in the ventral half of the undifferentiated eye disc, thus creating a dorsoventral boundary. Ectopic Fringe borders that are generated by clones of fringe − cells can reverse the planar polarity of photoreceptor clusters, indicating that the Fringe boundary is crucial for the induction of mirror symmetry. Lack of a Fringe boundary disrupts equatorial expression of Notch signalling proteins and causes a complete failure of eye development. Our results indicate that the formation of the Fringe boundary and subsequent Notch signalling at the equator are essential for organizing mirror symmetry and eye morphogenesis.

Date: 1998
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