Organizing Complex Tissue Architecture by Pushing and Pulling Cell Contacts.

Changes to cell shape and interaction drive animal tissue morphogenesis. Reporting now in Developmental Cell, Del Signore et al. (2018) describe active lengthening of cell-cell contacts by Arp2/3-based actin networks. Through cycles of contact lengthening and shortening, the developing Drosophila eye passes through various multicellular configurations to achieve its complex architecture.