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Organization of anterior pattern in the Drosophila embryo by the maternal gene bicoid

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Embryos derived from bicoid (bcd) females lack head and thorax. Cytoplasmic transplantation experiments reveal that bcd+-dependent activity is localized at the anterior pole of wild-type embryos. The activity can induce anterior development in mutant embryos at any position along the antero-posterior axis and suppresses posterior development.

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Frohnhöfer, H., Nüsslein-Volhard, C. Organization of anterior pattern in the Drosophila embryo by the maternal gene bicoid. Nature 324, 120–125 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/324120a0

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