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Science 23 April 1965:
Vol. 148. no. 3669, pp. 502 - 503
DOI: 10.1126/science.148.3669.502
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Culture of Dissociated Drosophila Embryos: Aggregated Cells Differentiate and Sort Out

Roland J. Lesseps 1

1 Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Woodstock College, Woodstock, Maryland 21163

When the cells of Drosophila embryos are dissociated and cultured in vitro, aggregation of the cells begins rapidly and movements of the cells continue for at least 5 days. Oenocytes, hypoderm, nerve, muscle, and trachea cells take up characteristic positions in the aggregates. Cells from X2 mutant embryos sort out in identically the same way as do cells from normal embryos.

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