title: Modular tubes: common principles of renal development.
abstract: The nephrons of the vertebrate kidney originate from mesenchymal tissue that is recruited and incorporated into a branching epithelium. Key features of this unusual manner of specifying functional units within a tubular organ have now been found to be similarly employed during development of the insect renal system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
authors.forename: Eyal D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Schejter
authors.forename: Ben-Zion
authors.initials: BZ
authors.lastname: Shilo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000196:embryology*; D004848:Epithelium / Q000196:embryology; D008317:Malpighian Tubules / Q000196:embryology*; D008648:Mesoderm / Q000502:physiology; D009399:Nephrons / Q000196:embryology*; D038081:Organogenesis; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000196:embryology*