Implications of diffusion and time-varying morphogen gradients for the dynamic positioning and precision of bistable gene expression boundaries

Melinda Liu Perkins

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008589

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Implications of diffusion and time-varying morphogen gradients for the dynamic positioning and precision of bistable gene expression boundaries

Melinda Liu Perkins

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mindy.liu.perkins@embl.de

Affiliation Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-5055

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Implications of diffusion and time-varying morphogen gradients for the dynamic positioning and precision of bistable gene expression boundaries

Melinda Liu Perkins

Published: June 1, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008589

About the Authors

Melinda Liu Perkins

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mindy.liu.perkins@embl.de

Affiliation Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-5055

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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