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Developmental circuits rewired

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Body segmentation occurs during the development of many invertebrate animals. Advances are being made by those striving to produce computer models of the genetic networks underlying the process.

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Figure 1: A model for the evolution of pattern generation.
Figure 2: Two routes to segmentation.

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