A perfect vulva every time: Gradients and signaling cascades in C. elegans
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A perfect vulva every time: Gradients and signaling cascades in C. elegans
For many years developmental biologists have been trying to learn whether patterning within fields of cells is driven by graded morphogens or by sequential signaling cascades. A graded morphogen is a signaling molecule that initiates different pathways of differentiation at different concentrations (Crick, 1970). This type of signal will cause a spatial pattern of different cell types to radiat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cell
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0092-8674
DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(95)90302-x