Self-organized shuttling: Generating sharp dorsoventral polarity in the early Drosophila embryo

Cell

Volumn 150, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1016-1028

  Haskel Ittah, Michal ^a   Ben Zvi, Danny ^a   Branski Arieli, Merav ^a   Schejter, Eyal D ^a   Shilo, Ben Zion ^a   Barkai, Naama ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; SPATZLE LIGAND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ORGANIZED SHUTTLING;

EID: 84865682920     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.06.044     Document Type: Article

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