title: Morphogen gradients: limits to signaling or limits to measurement?
abstract: In Drosophila embryos, a concentration gradient of nuclear Dorsal protein controls pattern formation along the dorsal-ventral axis. Recent quantitative studies agree on the temporal dynamics of the gradient, but disagree on its spatial limits.
authors.affiliation: Biophysics Graduate Group, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Jacques P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Bothma
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Levine
authors.forename: Alistair
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boettiger
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000196:embryology*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004625:Embryo, Nonmammalian; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental / Q000502:physiology*; D009024:Morphogenesis / Q000235:genetics; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D029721:Drosophila Proteins