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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Speed regulation of genetic cascades allows for evolvability in the body plan specification of insects.

Xin Zhu, Heike Rudolf, Lucas Healey, Paul François, Susan J Brown, Martin Klingler, Ezzat El-Sherif

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Xin ZhuDivision of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506.
Heike RudolfDepartment of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen 91058, Germany.
Lucas HealeyDepartment of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen 91058, Germany.
Paul FrançoisDepartment of Physics, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada.
Susan J BrownDivision of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506.
Martin KlinglerDepartment of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen 91058, Germany.
Ezzat El-SherifDepartment of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen 91058, Germany; ezzat.el-sherif@fau.de.
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DEKansas State University · USWeizmann Institute of Science · IL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the anterior-posterior fate specification of insects, anterior fates arise in a nonelongating tissue (called the "blastoderm"), and posterior fates arise in an elongating tissue (called the "germband"). However, insects differ widely in the extent to which anterior-posterior fates are specified in the blastoderm versus the germband. Here we present a model in which patterning in both the blastoderm and germband of the beetle

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Gene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalAnimalsBody PatterningEmbryo, NonmammalianInsect ProteinsPhenotypeTriboliumInsect Proteinscascadeclock-and-wavefrontenhancer switchingevolutionkinematic waves

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PMID28973882
PMCPMC5642680
OpenAlexW2763982223

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