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Controlling how many cells make a fly

Pete Moore

Journal of Biology 2003, 2:16 doi:10.1186/1475-4924-2-16

Published: 21 August 2003

Abstract

Studies in Drosophila have revealed the Forkhead-family transcription factor FOXO to be a crucial mediator of the branch of the insulin-signaling pathway that controls cell number.