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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY: The Turing Model Comes of Molecular Age
Philip K. Maini,1 Ruth E. Baker,2 Cheng-Ming Chuong3
Molecular analyses of hair follicle formation provide evidence to support the most well-known mathematical model for biological pattern formation.
1P. K. Maini is at the Center for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LB, UK, and the Oxford Center for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK. E-mail: maini{at}maths.ox.ac.uk
2R. E. Baker is at the Center for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LB, UK.
3C.-M. Chuong is in the Department of Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
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