title: Drosophila morphogenesis: the Newtonian revolution.
abstract: Recent quantitative modeling of dorsal closure in the fruitfly Drosophila has revealed how multiple forces drive sealing of the two symmetrical epithelial sheets. A predictive model based on the new data allows gene function to be linked to the forces that drive tissue movement.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Signaling, Developmental Biology and Cancer, UMR 6543-CNRS, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Parc Valrose, France.
authors.forename: Raphaël
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rousset
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Noselli
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D019521:Body Patterning / Q000502:physiology*; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D004330:Drosophila / Q000196:embryology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D009024:Morphogenesis