Spatial harmonics and pattern specification in early Drosophila development. Part II. The four colour wheels model.

doi:10.1016/s0022-5193(05)80079-7

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Spatial harmonics and pattern specification in early Drosophila development. Part II. The four colour wheels model.

Journal of theoretical biology - 7 Jun 1990

Kauffman S A, Goodwin B C

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We review the evidence presented in Part I showing that transcripts and protein products of maternal, gap, pair-rule, and segment polarity genes exhibit increasingly complex, multipeaked longitudinal waveforms in the early Drosophila embryo. The central problem we address in Part II is the use th...

Topics

Animals
Chromosome Deletion
Drosophila
Gene Expression
Models, Genetic
Multigene Family
Mutation
Phenotype

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