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<molecular biology> A segmentation gene, responsible for specifying anterior posterior polarity within individual embryonic segments.
In Drosophila, there are at least 10 such genes, for example gooseberry.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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