Supporting Information, Text S1 Stable, Precise, and Reproducible Patterning of Bicoid and Hunchback Molecules in the early Drosophila embryo
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Yurie Okabe-Oho, Hiroki Murakami, Suguru Oho and Masaki Sasai 1,3,4 Department of Computational Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan, Department of Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan, Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan, and School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 130-012, Korea
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