Morphogen gradient with expansion-repression mechanism: Steady-state and robustness studies

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 775-787

  Lo, Wing Cheong ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expansionrepression mechanism; Matheamatical modeling; Morphogen gradient; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897525730     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.775     Document Type: Article

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