Precision and scaling in morphogen gradient read-out

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Morton De Lachapelle, Aitana ^a,b   Bergmann, Sven ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bicoid; Drosophila; Morphogen gradients; Precision; Scaling

Indexed keywords

BICOID PROTEIN; MORPHOGEN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; EMBRYO; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 77949393145     PISSN: 17444292     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2010.7     Document Type: Article

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