What Orients Stripes in a Turing Pattern? (IMAGE)

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What Orients Stripes in a Turing Pattern?

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How do developmental programs ensure that stripes patterns always point in the same direction (e.g., what makes the fingers form parallel to the arm)? This graphical abstract shows how a simple model of Turing stripe formation predicts three distinct ways to orient stripes that apply to a wide variety of biological mechanisms.

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Hiscock and Megason/<i>Cell Systems</i> 2015

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