Noise in the segmentation gene network of Drosophila, with implications for mechanisms of body axis specification

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5110, Issue , 2003, Pages 180-191

  Holloway, David M ^a,b   Harrison, Lionel G ^b   Spirov, Alexander V ^c,d  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Concentration noise; Confocal microscopy; Drosophila melanogaster; Embryonic axis specification; Error propagation; Gene regulation; Image processing; Positional specification; Quantitative protein expression; Spatial pattern formation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; FRUITS; GENES; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROTEINS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYONIC AXIS SPECIFICATION; GENE REGULATION;

BIOLOGY;

EID: 0041324707     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.488920     Document Type: Conference Paper

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