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Development 130, 1017-1027 (2003)
Copyright © 2003 The Company of Biologists Limited

Apoptosis-mediated cell death within the ovarian polar cell lineage of Drosophila melanogaster

Florence Besse and Anne-Marie Pret*

Institut Jacques Monod, (UMR 7592 — CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie/Université Denis Diderot), Laboratoire de Génétique du Développement et Evolution, 2-4, place Jussieu, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France

* Author for correspondence (e-mail: pret{at}ijm.jussieu.fr)

Accepted 26 November 2002

Polar cells have been described as pairs of specific follicular cells present at each pole of Drosophila egg chambers. They are required at different stages of oogenesis for egg chamber formation and establishment of both the anteroposterior and planar polarities of the follicular epithelium. We show that definition of polar cell pairs is a progressive process since early stage egg chambers contain a cluster of several polar cell marker-expressing cells at each pole, while as of stage 5, they contain invariantly two pairs of such cells. Using cell lineage analysis, we demonstrate that these pre-polar cell clusters have a polyclonal origin and derive specifically from the polar cell lineage, rather than from that giving rise to follicular cells. In addition, selection of two polar cells from groups of pre-polar cells occurs via an apoptosis-dependent mechanism and is required for correct patterning of the anterior follicular epithelium of vitellogenic egg chambers.

Key words: Oogenesis, Polar cells, Cell lineage, Apoptosis, Drosophila melanogaster




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