Coordinating Fruit-Fly Metamorphosis and Growth (4 of 5) (IMAGE)
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Damaged cells in the imaginal disc autonomously activate dilp8 expression (green). Purple indicates nuclear staining. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the May 4, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Andres Garelli at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Alicante, Spain, and colleagues was titled, "Imaginal Discs Secrete Insulin-Like Peptide 8 to Mediate Plasticity of Growth and Maturation."
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