Elucidating mechanisms underlying robustness of morphogen gradients.

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Published in Curr Opin Genet Dev on August 01, 2004

Authors

Avigdor Eldar1, Ben-Zion Shilo, Naama Barkai

Author Affiliations

1: Departments of Molecular Genetics and Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

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