Researchers Revise Long-Held Theory of Fruit-Fly Development (Caltech Today)
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For decades, science texts have told a simple and straightforward story about a particular proteina transcription factorthat helps the embryo of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, pattern tissues in a manner that depends on the levels of this factor within individual cells. “For 20 years, this system of patterning has been used in textbooks as a paradigm for patterning in embryos …
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Researchers Revise Long-Held Theory of Fruit-Fly Development (Caltech Today)
