DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Return to the Proliferative Pool
Acaimo González-Reyes1 and Jordi Casanova2
Differentiated tracheal cells in the fruit fly larva paradoxically revert to a progenitor form as development advances to the adult stage.
1Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CSIC-UPO), Sevilla, Spain.
2Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona (CSIC) and Institut de Recerca Biomèdica, Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: jcrbmc{at}cid.csic.es