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. 1999 Jun 15;18(12):3187–3192. doi: 10.1093/emboj/18.12.3187

Gastrulation in Drosophila: the logic and the cellular mechanisms.

M Leptin 1
PMCID: PMC1171399  PMID: 10369659

Abstract

The egg contains a set of molecules that can be used to trigger cell-shape changes leading to morphogenetic movements. The temporally and spatially controlled activation of these molecules, and hence the choreography of gastrulation movements, is determined by region-specific expression of transcription factors which turn on a set of downstream targets whose products mediate the successive steps of gastrulation.

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