How the Fruit Fly Embryo Got Its Stripes (IMAGE)
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A team at Princeton found that cells optimize the use of information available to them to find their correct placement during fly embryo development. Information deposited in the embryo by the fly mother is translated into genetic and molecular instructions that drive the precise placement of stripes on the developing fly larva.
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Illustration by Mariela Petkova
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