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Nature Cell Biology 2, E79 - E82 (2000)
doi:10.1038/35010511
Morphogen diffusion: the case of the Wingless protein
Inge The & Norbert Perrimon
- Inge The is in the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
- Norbert Perrimon is in the Department of Genetics and at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. e-mail: perrimon@rascal.med.harvard.edu
Correspondence to: Norbert Perrimon e-mail: ithe@rascal.med.harvard.edu
Abstract
Understanding how morphogens promote three-dimensional patterning is an important issue in developmental biology. Recently, new insights have been gained into the mechanisms by which the Drosophila morphogen Wingless/Wnt is distributed in tissues.
