Table 1.

Cadherin classification and expression in the Drosophila genome

Gene	Subcategory	Expression		Selected References
		Early S<10	Late S>10
shotgun (shg)/ DE-Cad	Classical	+	+	(Godt and Tepass, 1998; Niewiadomska et al, 1999; Oda et al., 1997; Pacquelet and Rorth, 2005)
cadherin-N (CadN)/DN-Cad	Classical	+	−	(Tanentzapf et al., 2000)
CadN2	Classical	−	−	(Tepass and Harris, 2007)
starry night/ flamingo (stan/fmi)	Seven-pass transmembrane	−		(Oda et al., 1997)
fat2	Fat-like	+	+	(Castillejo-Lopez et al, 2004)
fat	Fat-like	−	−	(Castillejo-Lopez et al, 2004; Demontis et al., 2006; Saburi et al., 2008)
dachsous (ds)	Fat-like	−	−	(Tanoue and Takeichi, 2005)
calsyntenin- l(cals)	Calsyntenin	+	+	(Vogt et al., 2001)
Ret oncogene (Ret)	Protein kinase	−	−	(Abrescia et al., 2005; Fung et al, 2008; Sugaya et al, 1994)
Cad74A	Nonclassical	+	+	(Zartman et al.. In Press)
Cad86C	Nonclassical	−	+	(Schlichting and Dahmann, 2008)
Cad87A	Nonclassical	+	+	(Fung et al., 2008; Hill et al., 2001; Tepass et al., 2000)
Cad88C	Nonclassical,	−	+	(Demontis et al., 2006; Fung et al, 2008; Lovegrove et al., 2006)
Cad89D	Nonclassical	−	−	(Hill et al, 2001; Tepass et al., 2000)
Cad96Ca	Protein kinase	−	−	(Demontis et al., 2006)
Cad96Cb	Nonclassical	−	−	(Lovegrove et al, 2006)
Cad99C	Nonclassical	+	+	(D′Alterio et al, 2005; Schlichting et al, 2005; Schlichting et al, 2006)