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Integration of complex larval chemosensory organs into the adult nervous system of Drosophila

Gendre, Nanaë ; Lüer, Karin ; Friche, Sandrine ; Grillenzoni, Nicola ; Ramaekers, Ariane ; Technau, Gerhard M. ; Stocker, Reinhard F.

In: Development, 2004, vol. 131, p. 83-92

The sense organs of adult Drosophila, and holometabolous insects in general, derive essentially from imaginal discs and hence are adult specific. Experimental evidence presented here, however, suggests a different developmental design for the three largely gustatory sense organs located along the pharynx. In a comprehensive cellular analysis, we show that the posteriormost of the three organs...