Improved readout precision of the Bicoid morphogen gradient by early decoding.

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Published in J Biol Phys on December 03, 2011

Authors

Zvi Tamari1, Naama Barkai

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100 Israel.

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