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Science 2 June 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5778, pp. 1317 - 1318
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128343
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DEVELOPMENT BIOLOGY:
Linking Nutrition and Tissue Growth

Pierre Léopold and Sophie Layalle

Environmental cues affect the course of an organism's development. For example, in some insects, scarce nutrients induce a hormone to block tissue formation.

The authors are at CNRS/University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, UMR6543, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice cedex 2, France. E-mail: pierre.leopold{at}unice.fr

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