Midblastula Transition (IMAGE)

Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Midblastula Transition

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The dorsal-ventral patterning gene snail (shown in red) is one of the few genes that are active before as well as after the midblastula transition. The segmentation gene paired (shown in green) is turned on during the transition. Cell nuclei are shown in blue.

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Image: Courtesy of Kai Chen

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