Morphogenesis at criticality

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3683-3688

  Krotov, Dmitry ^a   Dubuis, Julien O ^a   Gregora, Thomas ^a   Bialek, William ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila embryo; Genetic networks

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THEORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; KERNEL METHOD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DROSOPHILA EMBRYO; GENETIC NETWORKS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84896282907     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1324186111     Document Type: Article

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