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Programming the Drosophila embryo 2

From genotype to phenotype

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Although development is a single hierarchical process, scientists tend to study only one level at a time: molecular, cellular, or organismal. The data and theory are available to integrate molecular, cellular, and organismal levels into a series of maps for development of the Drosophila embryo. These maps link the transcriptional cascade with mitotic and phenotypic fate maps to trace hiera-archical mechanisms of development from the genotype in the egg to the phenotype in the larva.

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Bodnar, J.W., Bradley, M.K. Programming the Drosophila embryo 2. Cell Biochem Biophys 34, 153–190 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1385/CBB:34:2:153

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