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Development, Vol 100, Issue 1 1-12, Copyright © 1987 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
GM Technau
Institut fur Entwicklungsphysiologie, Koln, FRG.
The mechanisms leading to the commitment of a cell to a particular fate or to restrictions in its developmental potencies represent a problem of central importance in developmental biology. Both at the genetic and at the molecular level, studies addressing this topic using the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster have advanced substantially, whereas, at the cellular level, experimental techniques have been most successfully applied to organisms composed of relatively large and accessible cells. The combined application of the different approaches to one system should improve our understanding of the process of commitment as a whole. Recently, a method has been devised to study cell lineage in Drosophila embryos at the single cell level. This method has been used to analyse the lineages, as well as the state of commitment of single cell progenitors from various ectodermal, mesodermal and endodermal anlagen and of the pole cells. The results obtained from a clonal analysis of wild-type larval structures are discussed in this review.
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