Sharp borders from fuzzy gradients

Holloway, David (David Holloway (David_Holloway)) (author)
Reinitz, John (author)
Spirov, Alexander (author)
Vanario-Alonso, Carlos, E. (author)
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© 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Critical boundaries in the early Drosophila embryo are set by morphogenetic gradients. A new quantitative study shows that the placement of one such boundary is more accurate than the gradient thought to set it. Genetic analysis of the accuracy of the process implicates a gene not previously thought to be involved.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168952502027245