Morphogens, Compartments, and Pattern: Lessons from Drosophila?

We thank Javier Sampedro for planning Figure 4Figure 4 and Dan Barbash, Jose Casal, Jim Smith, and Jean-Paul Vincent for help with the manuscript. The advice and support of Hugh Pelham and Jim Smith is much appreciated.

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