The production of intestinal cells in a worm embryo is regulated by a network of transcription factors. Studies of these networks in mutant worms provide evidence for stochastic effects in gene expression.
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Streit, A., Sommer, R. Random expression goes binary. Nature 463, 891–892 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463891a
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