A damped oscillator imposes temporal order on posterior gap gene expression in Drosophila.

Insects determine their body segments in two different ways. Short-germband insects, such as the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, use a molecular clock to establish segments sequentially. In contrast, long-germband insects, such as the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster, determine all segments sim...

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Main Authors: Berta Verd, Erik Clark, Karl R Wotton, Hilde Janssens, Eva Jiménez-Guri, Anton Crombach, Johannes Jaeger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-02-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5832388?pdf=render