title: Developmental biology: taking flight.
abstract: Powered flight was first mastered by insects, many millions of years ago. Now, studies with the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster reveal the critical role of a conserved transcription factor in programming the development of specialized flight muscles.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Proteos, 61 Biopolis Drive, Singapore 138673, Singapore. sudipto@imcb.a-star.edu.sg
authors.forename: Sudipto
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: VijayRaghavan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000196:embryology* / Q000378:metabolism; D005426:Flight, Animal; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D024510:Muscle Development; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C085793:salm protein, Drosophila