Apical constriction is a cell shape change that promotes tissue remodeling in a variety of
homeostatic and developmental contexts, including gastrulation in many organisms and …

Embryonic morphogenesis requires the execution of complex mechanisms that regulate the
local behaviour of groups of cells. The orchestration of such mechanisms has been mainly …

Morphogenesis is the remarkable process by which cells self-assemble into complex tissues
and organs that exhibit specialized form and function during embryological development …

Gastrulation is a fundamental phase of animal embryogenesis during which germ layers are
specified, rearranged, and shaped into a body plan with organ rudiments. Gastrulation …

Morphogenesis of an organism requires the development of its parts to be coordinated in
time and space. While past studies concentrated on defined cell populations, a synthetic …

Although it is rarely considered so in modern developmental biology, morphogenesis is
fundamentally a biomechanical process, and this is especially true of one of the first major …

Cell packing—the spatial arrangement of cells—determines the shapes of organs. Recently,
investigations of organ development in a variety of model organisms have uncovered …

The folded gasfrulaflon (fog) gene is required during Drosophila gastrulatlon for two
morphogenetic movements, formation of the ventral furrow and invaginatlon of the posterfor …

Drosophila germ-band extension (GBE) is an example of the convergence and extension
movements that elongate and narrow embryonic tissues. To understand the collective cell …

Invagination of the epithelial cell sheet of the prospective mesoderm in Drosophila
gastrulation is a well-studied, relatively simple morphogenetic event that results from …