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A systems view of Drosophila segmentation

Mike Levine

Author Affiliations

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Division of Genetics, Genomics and Development, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Genome Biology 2008, 9:207 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-2-207

Published: 11 February 2008

Abstract

High-throughput technologies have enabled the systematic identification and characterization of most, or possibly all, of the components governing segmentation in the fruit fly Drosophila. What have we learned?