Opinion Paper

Developmental Principles: Fact or Fiction

Figure 2

A developmental principle: time-space translation. The figure illustrates how temporally collinear Hox expression (in vertebrate gastrula mesoderm) is translated to a spatially collinear axial Hox pattern (in axial mesoderm and the neural plate). For a detailed explanation, see Durston et al [5, 6].
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