Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

The last-born daughter cell contributes to division orientation of Drosophila larval neuroblasts

  • Nicolas Loyer,
  • Jens Januschke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06276-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The highly proliferative neuroblasts of the Drosophila larval brain divide over many cell cycles in a polarized manner. Here the authors show that the orientation of the axis of NB divisions is defined by the position of their last-born daughter cell.