Robustness of the BMP morphogen gradient in Drosophila embryonic patterning

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6904, 2002, Pages 304-308

  Eldar, Avigdor ^a   Dorfman, Ruslan ^a   Weiss, Daniel ^a   Ashe, Hilary ^b   Shilo, Den Zion ^a   Barkal, Naama ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; FEEDBACK; GENES; PROTEINS;

MORPHOGEN GRADIENTS;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; WATER;

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DIFFUSION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE DOSAGE; GENOTYPE; LIGANDS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0037136555     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01061     Document Type: Article

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