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. 2010 Jun 15;18(6):882-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2010.05.019.

Flower dooms cells to death

Peter Gallant  1
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Flower dooms cells to death

Peter Gallant. Dev Cell. .
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Abstract

In Drosophila imaginal discs, viable cells are outcompeted by their faster growing neighbors in a process called "cell competition." A new study in this issue of Developmental Cell identifies the membrane protein Flower as being specifically induced in the outcompeted cells and required for their ensuing apoptosis.

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