Cell Competition Time Line: Winners Kill Losers, which Are Extruded and Engulfed by Hemocytes

Cell competition is a mechanism that eliminates slow dividing cells from a growing population. It is believed that the genes wasp, psr, and draper are active in the cells that win the competition (“winner cells”) and that they are essential in the winner cells for the induction of apoptosis and for...

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Main Authors: Fidel-Nicolás Lolo, Sergio Casas-Tintó, Eduardo Moreno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-09-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124712002379