Morphogen gradients

Hornung G, Berkowitz B, Barkai N (2005) Morphogen gradient formation in a complex environment An anomalous diffusion model. Phys Rev E 72,041916, DOl 10.1103/PhysRev E.72.041916... 

Adhesion between cells is required to hold an organism together and also, together with morphogen gradients, to provide a positional identity... 

Cadigan, K.M., Regulating morphogen gradients in the Drosophila wing, Semin. Cell Dev. Biol 13, 83-90, 2002. 

Lander, A. D. (2007). Morpheus unbound Reimagining the morphogen gradient. Cell, 128, 254. 

Eldar, A., Rosin, D., Shilo, B.Z., and Barkai, N. 2003. Self-enhanced ligand degradation underlies robustness of morphogen gradients. Dev Cell 5 635-646. 

Gurdon, J.B. and BourUlot, P.Y. 2001. Morphogen gradient interpretation. Nature 413 797-803. 

Morphogens are form-generating substances, whose configuration within a tissue prefigures the pattern (Meinhardt, 1983). These substances set up an extracellular concentration gradient, which in turns orchestrates a coherent set of cellular behaviors that will eventually result in the proportionate growth of an or-... 

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