Movie 6.

Cell divisions reduce junctional tension in the ectoderm. Laser ablation of a contact between ectoderm cells and parallel to the dorsal ventral axis in embryos expressing Ecadherin: GFP and treated with 50% DMSO (left) or 500 μM dinaciclib (right). Images were acquired every 4 seconds.

Cell divisions both challenge and refine tissue boundaries in the Drosophila embryo

Veronica Castle, Merdeka Miles, Rafael Perez-Vicente, Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez, and Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan

Development 2026. 153:None-None; doi: 10.1242/dev.204817