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First published online 13 August 2008
doi: 10.1242/dev.020800

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Reciprocal roles for bowl and lines in specifying the peripodial epithelium and the disc proper of the Drosophila wing primordium

¹ Program in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
² Program in Genetics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

^* Author for correspondence (e-mail: victor.hatini{at}tufts.edu)

Accepted 9 July 2008

Central to embryonic development is the generation of molecular asymmetries across fields of undifferentiated cells. The Drosophila wing imaginal disc provides a powerful system with which to understand how such asymmetries are generated and how they contribute to formation of a complex structure. Early in development, the wing primordium is subdivided into a thin layer of peripodial epithelium (PE) and an apposing thickened layer of pseudostratified columnar epithelium (CE), known as the disc proper (DP). The DP gives rise to the wing blade, hinge and dorsal mesothorax, whereas the PE makes only a minor contribution to the ventral hinge and pleura. The mechanisms that generate this major asymmetry and its contribution to wing development are poorly understood. The Lines protein destabilizes the nuclear protein Bowl in ectodermal structures. Here, we show that Bowl accumulates in the PE from early stages of wing development and is absent from the DP. Broad inhibition of Bowl in the PE resulted in the replacement of the PE with a mirror image duplication of the DP. The failure to generate the PE severely compromised wing growth and the formation of the notum. Conversely, the activation of bowl in the DP (by removal or inhibition of lines function) resulted in the transformation of the DP into PE. Thus, we provide evidence that bowl and lines act as a binary switch to subdivide the wing primordium into PE and DP, and assign crucial roles for this asymmetry in wing growth and patterning.

Key words: Wing imaginal disc, Peripodial epithelium, Proximo-distal patterning, odd-skipped genes

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