Size Regulation in the Segmentation of Drosophila: Interacting Interfaces between Localized Domains of Gene Expression Ensure Robust Spatial Patterning

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 16, 2009, Pages

  Vakulenko, Sergei ^a   Manu, ^b   Reinitz, John ^b   Radulescu, Ovidiu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROBLEMS OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING   (Russian Federation)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PATTERNING; CONDENSED MEDIA; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GENE INTERACTIONS; GENE NETWORKS; INTERFACE DYNAMIC; MORPHOGEN GRADIENTS; NEW MECHANISMS; SIZE REGULATION; SPATIAL PATTERNING;

GENE EXPRESSION;

EID: 70350091426     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.168102     Document Type: Article

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