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Patterns of engrailed and fushi tarazu transcripts reveal novel intermediate stages in Drosophila segmentation

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Transcripts of the engrailed and fushi tarazu genes in young Drosophila embryos are initially patterned in intervals larger than a single segment. The segmental pattern evolves in a stepwise sequence through successively smaller spatial units.

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Weir, M., Kornberg, T. Patterns of engrailed and fushi tarazu transcripts reveal novel intermediate stages in Drosophila segmentation. Nature 318, 433–439 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/318433a0

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