Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 51 (Dec. 22, 2009), pp. 21707-21712 (6 pages) The dorsoventral (DV) patterning of the Drosophila embryo ...

In theory, patterning the Drosophila embryo would be simple: morphogen gradients that are distributed across the unpatterned tissue activate a combination of transcription factors that interact to ...

It is well accepted that retinoic acid (RA) is important for a range of processes during maturation of the nervous system, including early development of the eye. Sen and colleagues now show that RA ...

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Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling plays a major role in dorsoventral patterning in vertebrates and in Drosophila. Remarkably, in Tribolium, a beetle with an ancestral type of insect ...