The angle of the dorsoventral axis with respect to the anteroposterior axis in the Drosophila embryo is controlled by the distribution of gurken mRNA in the oocyte.

doi:10.1016/0925-4773(94)00306-8

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The angle of the dorsoventral axis with respect to the anteroposterior axis in the Drosophila embryo is controlled by the distribution of gurken mRNA in the oocyte.

Mechanisms of development - 1 Jan 1995

Haenlin M, McDonald W F, Cibert C, Mohier E

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Like most organisms, Drosophila embryos develop in relation to two orthogonal axes, the anteroposterior and dorsoventral. These two axes are established by four independent systems of maternal information. Mutations in any system disrupt either the anteroposterior or the dorsoventral patterning o...

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Animals
Blastoderm
Cell Polarity
Drosophila
Embryo, Nonmammalian
Morphogenesis
Mutation
Oocytes
RNA, Messenger

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