Free Extracellular Diffusion Creates the Dpp Morphogen Gradient of the Drosophila Wing Disc
Abstract
Summary. Background. How morphogen gradients form has long been a subject of controversy. The strongest support for the view that morphogens do not simply spread by free diffusion has come from a variety of studies of the Decapentaplegic (Dpp) gradient of the Drosophila larval wing disc.
- Publication:
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Current Biology
- Pub Date:
- April 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.cub.2012.02.065
- Bibcode:
- 2012CBio...22..668Z