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Rho-Kinase Directs Bazooka/Par-3 Planar Polarity during Drosophila Axis Elongation

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Integration of contractile forces during tissue invagination

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Planar polarized actomyosin contractile flows control epithelial junction remodelling

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Tissue elongation requires oscillating contractions of a basal actomyosin network

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Pulsed Forces Timed by a Ratchet-like Mechanism Drive Directed Tissue Movement during Dorsal Closure

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Repression of Wasp by JAK/STAT signalling inhibits medial actomyosin network assembly and apical cell constriction in intercalating epithelial cells

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Myosin II Dynamics Are Regulated by Tension in Intercalating Cells

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TheDrosophilaafadin homologue Canoe regulates linkage of the actin cytoskeleton to adherens junctions during apical constriction

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Rab11 Helps Maintain Apical Crumbs and Adherens Junctions in the Drosophila Embryonic Ectoderm

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Diaphanous regulates myosin and adherens junctions to control cell contractility and protrusive behavior during morphogenesis

(2008) C. C. F. Homem et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Local Actin-Dependent Endocytosis Is Zygotically Controlled to Initiate Drosophila Cellularization

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Zygotically controlled F-actin establishes cortical compartments to stabilize furrows during Drosophila cellularization

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Pulsed contractions of an actin–myosin network drive apical constriction

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Morphogenetic Cell Movements: Diversity from Modular Mechanical Properties

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