ABSTRACT
Little or nothing was said, by workers on vertebrate somite formation at this symposium, about theories for the overall control of segment size, and thus the number of segments in the pattern. The current mood may well be that further modelling of the machinery of segmental patterning should await knowledge of the spatial patterns of synthesis of all relevant gene products, because understanding of the dynamics of segmentation in insects is only just beginning to emerge even though such knowledge for Drosophila genes is well advanced. What can be said, nevertheless, about the ‘system properties’ of the segmentation process in the two groups?
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1998
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