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Establishment and maintenance of parasegmental compartments.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Apr 2001
Hughes S C, Krause H M
Abstract excerpt
Embryos of higher metazoans are divided into repeating units early in development. In Drosophila, the earliest segmental units to form are the parasegments. Parasegments are initially defined by alternating stripes of expression of the fushi-tarazu and even-skipped genes. How fushi-tarazu and even-skipped define the parasegment boundaries, and how parasegments are lost when fushi-tarazu or even-skipped fail to...
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