Decapentaplegic acts as a morphogen to organize dorsal-ventral pattern in the Drosophila embryo.

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Published in Cell on October 30, 1992

Authors

E L Ferguson1, K V Anderson

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1: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720.

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