Abstract

The Drosophila compound eye is an attractive system for unraveling how tissues are specified and patterned. Puli et al. demonstrate that eye size and spacing is controlled by the defective proventriculus (dve) gene. This impacts our understanding of hypertelorism, a disorder associated with mutations in SATB1, the ortholog of Dve.

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