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Experiments on head grafting and regeneration in Hydra have been used to show quantitatively that diffusion of a morphogen is a plausible basis for the control of differentiation.
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WOLPERT, L., CLARKE, M. & HORNBRUCH, A. Positional Signalling along Hydra. Nature New Biology 239, 101–105 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio239101a0
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