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Organ Growth: Scaling the Drosophila Wing
From dwarves to giants, scaling is a universal property of animal organs, but its mechanistic basis is poorly understood. Here, Parker and Struhl identify a molecular circuit involving TOR and Yorkie that underlies scaling of the Drosophila wing. The image shows superimposed Drosophila wings from well-fed (large) and starved (small, false-colored blue) animals of the same genotype, illustrating the wing's capacity to scale dramatically in size.
Image Credit: Joseph Parker
Citation: (2015) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 13(10) October 2015. PLoS Biol 13(10): ev13.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v13.i10
Published: October 30, 2015
Copyright: © 2015 Parker. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
From dwarves to giants, scaling is a universal property of animal organs, but its mechanistic basis is poorly understood. Here, Parker and Struhl identify a molecular circuit involving TOR and Yorkie that underlies scaling of the Drosophila wing. The image shows superimposed Drosophila wings from well-fed (large) and starved (small, false-colored blue) animals of the same genotype, illustrating the wing's capacity to scale dramatically in size.
Image Credit: Joseph Parker