Developmental BiologyPhysical BiologyPeer-reviewed
Scaling of the Bicoid morphogen gradient: the effect of state dependent diffusion
Priya Chakraborty, Shyam Balaji Iyer, Richa Rikhy…·Amitabha Nandi
This study proposes a model of spatially varying diffusion to explain how the Bicoid gradient scales with embryo size in Drosophila, showing that gradient scaling arises from spatial heterogeneity rather than nuclear trapping.
DOI 10.1088/1478-3975/ae9031