Direct and continuous assessment by cells of their position in a morphogen gradient

Expression of a xenopus homolog of Brachyury (T) is an immediate-early response to mesoderm induction

James C. Smith, Brenda M. J. Price, Jeremy Green et al. · Cell · 1991 · 970 citations

Biology, Pattern Formation, Developmental Biology +6

Molecular nature of Spemann's organizer: the role of the Xenopus homeobox gene goosecoid

Ken W.Y. Cho, Bruce Blumberg, Herbert Steinbeißer et al. · Cell · 1991 · 800 citations · Full text

Biology, Natural Sciences, Genetics +8

Graded changes in dose of a Xenopus activin A homologue elicit stepwise transitions in embryonic cell fate

Jeremy Green, James C. Smith · Nature · 1990 · 507 citations

Developmental Biology, Developmental Genetics, Morphogenesis +7

Responses of embryonic xenopus cells to activin and FGF are separated by multiple dose thresholds and correspond to distinct axes of the mesoderm

Jeremy Green, Helen V. New, James C. Smith · Cell · 1992 · 483 citations

Developmental Biology, Embryonic Xenopus Cells, Multiple Dose Thresholds +8

decapentaplegic acts as a morphogen to organize dorsal-ventral pattern in the Drosophila embryo

Edwin L. Ferguson, Kathryn V. Anderson · Cell · 1992 · 483 citations

Pattern Formation, Developmental Biology, Developmental Genetics +10