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Bicoid-independent formation of thoracic segments in Drosophila.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 31 Mar 2000
Wimmer E A, Carleton A, Harjes P, Turner T, Desplan C
Abstract excerpt
The maternal determinant Bicoid (Bcd) represents the paradigm of a morphogen that provides positional information for pattern formation. However, as bicoid seems to be a recently acquired gene in flies, the question was raised as to how embryonic patterning is achieved in organisms with more ancestral modes of development. Because the phylogenetically conserved Hunchback (Hb) protein had previously been shown to...
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