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Jean-Paul Vincent1, Ruta Ziukaite1, Cyrille Alexandre1
1The Francis Crick Institute, Mill Hill Laboratory, The Ridgeway, London NW7 1AA, UK.
Abstract:
Decapentaplegic has long been thought to be a morphogen that controls patterning and growth in Drosophila wings, but hard evidence for the requisite long-range action has only now come from two new studies.
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