A matter of time: Formation and interpretation of the Bicoid morphogen gradient

A Huang, TE Saunders - Current topics in developmental biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Spatially distributed signaling molecules, known as morphogens, provide spatial information
during development. A host of different morphogens have now been identified, from …

Precision of flow sensing by self-communicating cells

S Fancher, M Vennettilli, N Hilgert, A Mugler - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Metastatic cancer cells detect the direction of lymphatic flow by self-communication: they
secrete and detect a chemical which, due to the flow, returns to the cell surface …

Constraints and limitations on decoding positional information: the Bicoid case-study

H Tran, AM Walczak, N Dostatni - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
The regulation of expression of the hunchback promoter by the maternal Bicoid gradient has
been studied as a model system in development for many years. Yet, at the level of …