Robust, Bistable, BMP Dependent Patterning of the Drosophila Blastoderm Embryo: Supporting Online Material(SOM)
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Robust, Bistable, BMP-Dependent Patterning of the Drosophila Blastoderm Embryo
Supporting online material (SOM) 2 SUMMARY In many developing systems, the developmental fate of a cell is determined by its position in a time-independent spatial distribution of a morphogen. However, during dorsal-ventral patterning in the Drosophila embryo, signaling begins broad and low, and refines to a narrow, high intensity band. This suggests that cells respond to the local transient mo...
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