Another road to making embryonic pattern.
The body plan of a n animal is formed during embryonic development. One mechanism employs gradients of morphogens to direct cells in different parts of the embryo to become different adult structures. But is this the only way of producing tissue patterns? An alternative patterning is suggested by work on social amoebae.
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Rob
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. rrk@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D004023:Dictyostelium / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D004627:Embryonic Induction; D009024:Morphogenesis / Q000502:physiology*