title: Gastrulation in Drosophila: the logic and the cellular mechanisms.
abstract: The egg contains a set of molecules that can be used to trigger cell-shape changes leading to morphogenetic movements. The temporally and spatially controlled activation of these molecules, and hence the choreography of gastrulation movements, is determined by region-specific expression of transcription factors which turn on a set of downstream targets whose products mediate the successive steps of gastrulation.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Genetik, Universität zu Köln, Weyertal 121, D-50931 Köln, Germany. mleptin@uni-koeln.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leptin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019521:Body Patterning; D048429:Cell Size; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000166:cytology / Q000196:embryology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D004625:Embryo, Nonmammalian / Q000502:physiology*; D005775:Gastrula / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D009024:Morphogenesis