Current Biology
Volume 26, Issue 5, 7 March 2016, Pages R212-R215
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Sexual Dimorphism: How Female Cells Win the Race

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Sexual dimorphisms are established by sex determination pathways and are maintained during regeneration of adult tissues. Two recent studies in Drosophila elucidate the contribution of cell-autonomous and endocrine mechanisms to the establishment and maintenance of growth dimorphism in larvae and the adult intestine.

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