316: Spatial bistability of Dpp-receptor interactions during Drosophila dorsal-ventral patterning

Spatial bistability of Dpp-receptor interactions during Drosophila dorsal-ventral patterning. The mechanism controlling the expression of certain genes which control dorsal-ventral patterning involves complicated (and pretty) feedback loops.

Scientists are interested in fly development because it informs us on all of insect development (insects are the most diverse Class of animals) and common descent of all life suggests that similar processes may operate in human development.