“…The establishment of planar polarity and the precise determination of the equator is orchestrated by complex signaling involving counteracting gradients of Wg (Wehrli and Tomlinson, 1998), Jak/Stat (Zeidler et al, 1999b(Zeidler et al, , 2000a and Notch signaling activities (Blair, 1999;Cho and Choi, 1998;Dominguez and de Celis, 1998;Papayannopoulos et al, 1998). These combined signals ensure correct patterning across distances of several hundreds of cells in the eye ®eld (Bray, 2000;Mlodzik, 1999;Strutt and Strutt, 1999).…”