Movie 4

(For Fig. 8)
Focus on a few cells in the vental epidermis (posterior part) of an embryo expressing DE-cad-GFP in the foscrbY10A background. The red arrow points to a junction that creates a gap, showing that the juncions are under tension (jumping back) and formed discontinuities are transient.

Cytocortex-dependent dynamics of Drosophila Crumbs controls junctional stability and tension during germ band retraction

Anna T. Bajur, K. Venkatesan Iyer, and Elisabeth Knust

J Cell Sci 2019. 132:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jcs.228338