Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to D Strutt.
Cells in the Drosophila wing are polarised to produce a single distally pointing trichome. Recent studies show that this requires the recruitment of the Dishevelled protein to the distal cell edge, and the correct levels of Rho-associated kinase activity.
In the Drosophila eye, photoreceptor clusters are arranged with mirror-image symmetry about the dorso-ventral midline. Recent work indicates critical rôles for Wingless and JAK/STAT signalling in setting up long-range gradients of positional information that determine this symmetry. Furthermore, important functions have been elucidated for Notch signalling in specifying the position of the axis of symmetry and then later in development in interpreting gradient information.