title: Transcriptional regulation and spatial patterning in Drosophila.
abstract: Pattern formation in Drosophila is initiated by a small set of asymmetrically distributed maternal transcription factors that act as graded morphogens along the anterior-posterior and the dorsal-ventral axes of the embryo. Recent progress in the field provides first insight into the molecular mechanisms by which long-range positional information in the egg causes a series of localized zygotic transcription factors to position the developmental fate along the blastoderm.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Molekulare Entwicklungsbiologie, Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoch
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jäckle
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000196:embryology / Q000235:genetics*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D014157:Transcription Factors; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D014157:Transcription Factors