Rotation of sex combs in Drosophila melanogaster requires precise and coordinated spatio-temporal dynamics from forces generated by epithelial cells
Fig 4
Confocal images of SC experiments for ♀wt, ♂babPR72 and ♂wt. Each scale bar: 10 μm. Initial = 23 hours AP; Final = 36 hours AP.
Please see S2 Video. for a frame-by-frame capture of the entire SC rotation process of three flies with identical genotypes as the three here. A Minimally rotated SC in female wildtype. B Intermediately rotated SC in mutant babPR72. C Maximally rotated SC in male wildtype. D Summary statistics of the change in areas of distal epithelial cell in experiments with the above three fly genotpyes: ♀wt, ♂babPR72 and ♂wt. Conventions as in Fig 3D. The values displayed here are the average values of the 5 pupae for each genotype.