Figure 1
Delamination is a complex cellular process. (A) A time series showing the delamination process in wild-type Drosophila border cells. (B) A time series of transmission images of the egg chamber during delamination. Blue arrows indicate oocyte length, which increased with time. (C) An image series of a border cell cluster just before (− 2 min), at (0 min), and just after (+ 2 min) the delamination point. The yellow arrowhead indicates the detachment of the border cell cluster from the follicle cell layer. (D) Oocyte length at the delamination point was determined from 17 movies of wild-type border cells. We defined an oocyte length of 50–70 μm as a marker of the wild-type delamination period. Elapsed time from the start of the movie is shown at lower left. For all images, anterior is left.
