“…Signaling. Gro is a downstream transducer of several signaling pathways and was placed at the crossroads of the Notch and EGF signaling pathways during patterning of the Drosophila nervous system, where EGF-induced site-specific phosphorylation of Gro attenuates it repression activity (13)(14)(15). During embryonic stage 9, the CNS matures in three bilaterally symmetrical longitudinal rows of neuroblasts (16), with the homeobox transcription factors, Vnd, Ind, and Msh, specifying the medial (ventral), intermediate, and lateral rows, respectively ( Fig.…”