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Abstract
The maternal determinants of dorsoventral polarity of the Drosophila embryo are derived from somatic and germ-line components of the egg chamber. During oogenesis, asymmetry seems to be established by a signal transduction process. This process is thought to provide the developing embryo with a ventral signal responsible for determining the embryonic axis. Through a set of interactions that may involve signal transduction and proteolytic cascade events, positional information is generated in the form of a graded distribution of dorsal protein in blastoderm nuclei. Different levels of dorsal protein result in asymmetric expression of zygotic genes that ultimately specify cell fate.Entities:
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Year: 1991 PMID: 2068782 DOI: 10.1016/0168-9525(91)90456-z
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Genet ISSN: 0168-9525 Impact factor: 11.639