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Science 1 December 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5804, pp. 1397 - 1398
DOI: 10.1126/science.1136396

Perspectives

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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