Parasegments and compartments in the Drosophila embryo
- 1 February 1985
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 313 (6004), 639-642
- https://doi.org/10.1038/313639a0
Abstract
One of the first steps in segmentation of the Drosophila embryo seems to be not the formation of segments, but instead the definition of 14 domains, each of which encroaches into adjacent segments. We call these domains parasegments and discuss their developmental significance.Keywords
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