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Ventral cells do not intercalate during axis elongation. Germband cells expressing Gap43:mCherry during axis elongation. Red circles track cells. Cells 1-10 are lateral cells, cells 11-20 are ventral cells. A stack was acquired every 15 s. Anterior left, ventral down.

Automated cell tracking identifies mechanically oriented cell divisions during Drosophila axis elongation

Michael F. Z. Wang, Miranda V. Hunter, Gang Wang, Christopher McFaul, Christopher M. Yip, and Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez

Development 2017. 144:1350-1361; doi: 10.1242/dev.141473