Morphogen Gradients: Limits to Signaling or Limits to Measurement?

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Bothma, Jacques P ^a   Levine, Michael ^a   Boettiger, Alistair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MORPHOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77649176622     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.01.040     Document Type: Short Survey

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