Abstract
A crucial issue in studies of morphogen gradients relates to their range: The distance over which they can act as direct regulators of cell signaling, gene expression and cell differentiation. To address this, we present a straightforward statistical framework that can be used in multiple developmental systems. We illustrate the developed approach by providing a point estimate and confidence interval for the spatial range of the graded distribution of nuclear Dorsal, a transcription factor that controls the dorsoventral pattern of the Drosophila embryo.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4867-4874 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Development |
| Volume | 138 |
| Issue number | 22 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 15 2011 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Molecular Biology
- Developmental Biology
Keywords
- Computational biology
- Confidence interval
- Dorsal gradient
- Drosophila embryo
- Morphogen gradient
- Statistics