Pattern Formation in Imaginal Disks
Pattern Formation in Imaginal Disks
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想象盘中的图案形成
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1972
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A. Garcı́a
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A. Garcı́a
The shape of a crystal results directly from the physical properties of its atomic elements. Probably, the shape of a virus merely depends on the physico-chemical properties of the different coat proteins, coded by the corresponding genes (see Levine, 1969). By contrast, in multicellular organisms several steps are interposed between the genetic information of the zygote and the shape of the adult organism. In this case, shape appears after cell multiplication, cell grouping and cell differentiation. Thus, any causal explanation of organic shape in multicellular organisms would need to know how the genetic information is processed to build different proteins, different cells and different cell arrangements. When looking for experimental systems to study morphogenesis, attention was soon directed to morpho-genetic patterns. The term morphogenetic pattern is currently applied to shapes in which elements of different types appear located in fixed positions with respect to each other.