title: New ways to make a blood cell.
abstract: In a niche under the skin in Drosophila larvae, blood cells called plasmatocytes can transform into other classes of blood cell.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Genetic Immunology, BioMediTech, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland and the Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
authors.forename: Ines
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Anderl
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden and the Laboratory of Genetic Immunology, BioMediTech, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland dan.hultmark@ucmp.umu.se.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hultmark
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster; D006434:Hemocytes / Q000166:cytology*
keywords: D. melanogaster; Notch signaling; crystal cell; developmental biology; hematopoiesis; sessile cluster; stem cells