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Polarize to elongate

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An analysis of fruit-fly embryos reveals that receptor proteins of the Toll family direct the oriented cell rearrangements required for the elongation of the head-to-tail axis during development. See Article p.523

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Figure 1: Cell rearrangement in the Drosophila melanogaster germband.

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