title: Patterning with Diffusion Barriers.
abstract: Notch signaling instructs equivalent cells to form precise differentiation patterns. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Cinquin et al. (2015) characterize diffusion barriers that enhance Notch patterning within the Caenorhabditis elegans gonad.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA. Electronic address: mamiller@uab.edu.
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019521:Body Patterning / Q000235:genetics*; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000196:embryology* / Q000235:genetics*; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D005854:Germ Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*