Morphogens: how big is the big picture?
- 1 July 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Cell Biology
- Vol. 3 (7), E151-E154
- https://doi.org/10.1038/35083096
Abstract
Morphogens are in the front line just now. Here I trace how the concept of a morphogen has evolved over the past 100 years and step a little beyond what we already know.Keywords
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