The paper “Drosophila Pax6 promotes development of the entire eye-antennal disc thereby ensuring proper adult head formation” was selected for the cover of the June 6, 2017, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Within this paper researchers in the Kumar lab investigate the roles that two Pax6 transcription factors, Eyeless (Ey) and Twin of Eyeless (Toy) play in the early development of the eye-antennal disc, a monolayer epithelium that gives rise to most adult head structures. Their findings ascribe new and novel roles for Drosophila Pax6 genes in promoting tissue growth.
Kumar lab members authoring the article were Jinjin Zhu (graduate student), Sneha Palliyil (graduate student), and Justin Kumar (professor of biology).
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