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The sexual identity of adult intestinal stem cells controls organ size and plasticity

Bruno Hudry (), Sanjay Khadayate and Irene Miguel-Aliaga ()
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Bruno Hudry: MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus
Sanjay Khadayate: MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus
Irene Miguel-Aliaga: MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus

Nature, 2016, vol. 530, issue 7590, 344-348

Abstract: Reversible, cell-intrinsic mechanisms that depend on a new sex differentiation pathway act in adult somatic cells of the Drosophila intestine to govern sex-specific differences in organ size, plasticity during reproduction, and response to tumorigenic insults.

Date: 2016
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