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#1: multiple signals pattern the vertebrate neural tube and somite

#2: chick dorsal side, showing NT and somite development

#3: Patterning the vertebrate axis

#4: Drosophila melanogaster ovary

#5: Drosophila melanogaster ovariole, with egg chamber stages

#6: Drosophila melanogaster ovariole

#7: Drosophila melanogaster stage 9 egg chamber

#8: Drosophila melanogaster stage 11 egg chamber


#9: Drosophila early embryos showing bicoid & nanos mRNA and protein distributions

#10: gradient of dorsal protein in nuclei of early fly embryo

#11: Position of germinal vescicle and of gurken mRNA in wild-type (left) and gurken (right) stage 6 and 8 oocytes
#12: Model of 2-step gurken signaling, specifying posterior and then dorsal follicle cell fates

#13: Expression patterns of dpp (top) and twist (left and bottom) in blastoderm and early gastrula stage embryos

#14: Signaling pathways

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#17: expression patterns of rhomboid

#18: Xenopus secondary axis induction (or lack thereof) in injection experiments

#19: Coexpression of TLD and DPP with SOG Leads to SOG Cleavage

#20: orthologous pathways control D-V patterning in vertebrates and arthropods, but the side at which the main body axis forms is reversed!