Computer analysis of cell division in Drosophila imaginal discs: model revision and extension to simulate leg disc growth.
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An account of the patterns of clones induced on the head cuticle of Drosophila melanogaster is given. The system was studied using mitotic recombination, induced by X-rays at certain developmental stages. In agreement with the findings of a computer model devised to simulate growth in the head imaginal disc, cuticle clones are found to have a characteristic pattern, sweeping round the central, eye-forming part of the disc. The similarity between model and experiment suggests the validity of the model assumption. It is also shown that cuticle clones are not smaller in the posterior of the head, when induced at the developmental stages studied: this is in contrast to clones in the compound eye, where posterior clones are smaller than anterior ones.
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