Scaling of the Bicoid morphogen gradient by a volume-dependent production rate

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2741-2749

  Cheung, David ^a   Miles, Cecelia ^b   Kreitman, Martin ^b   Ma, Jun ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicoid; Drosophila; Embryo size; Evolution; Morphogen gradient; Scaling

Indexed keywords

BICOID MORPHOGEN; MESSENGER RNA; MORPHOGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EGG SIZE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 79958158587     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.064402     Document Type: Article

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