Videos

Morphogenesis of the abdominal epidermis of Drosophila.

The small histoblasts replace the large larval epithelial cells during metamorphosis. Cells are labelled with Histone-GFP. Segments A1 to A3 shown. Taken from Bischoff and Cseresnyes (2009).

Histoblasts and larval epithelial cells during abdominal morphogenesis.

The small histoblasts replace the large larval epithelial cells during metamorphosis. All cells are labelled with Histone-GFP. In addition, cells of the posterior compartment are labelled with RFP. Right panel shows 3D representation of tracked histoblasts. Taken from Bischoff and Cseresnyes (2009).

Trajectories of histoblasts.

Trajectories of histoblasts that move towards the dorsal midline during abdominal morphogenesis. Taken from Bischoff and Cseresnyes (2009).

Morphogenesis of the abdominal epidermis of Drosophila.

The small histoblasts replace the large larval epithelial cells during metamorphosis. Cells are labelled with Cadherin-GFP. Segment A2 shown. Taken from Bischoff (2012).

Larval epithelial cells (LECs) migrating and constricting during morphogenesis of the adult abdominal epidermis.

Small histoblasts replace the large LECs during the course of the process. Cells of the P compartment are labelled with GMA. Taken from Bischoff (2012). 

Development of cytonemes and Hedgehog activity gradient formation in histoblasts.

Cytoneme length and extent of the morphogen gradient correlate over time. Taken from Bischoff et al. (2013).