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Irrespective of an organism's size, the proportional sizes of its parts remain constant. An experimental model reveals size-dependent adjustment of segment formation and gene-expression oscillations in vertebrates. See Letter p.101

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Figure 1: Oscillating waves of gene expression in culture.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 19 December 2012.

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  1. Naama Barkai and Ben-Zion Shilo are in the Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.,

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Barkai, N., Shilo, BZ. Segmentation within scale. Nature 493, 32–33 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11849

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