Research the literature on your own (or suggested assignment)

Rothe, Pehl, Taubert & Jackle. Loss of gene function through rapid mitotic cycles in the Drosophila embryo. Nature 359, 156-159, (1992).

Rothe, Pehl, Taubert & Jackle. Loss of gene function through rapid mitotic cycles in the Drosophila embryo. Nature 359, 156-159, (1992).

How is the timing of the expression of the genes knirps and knirps-related regulated? Could this be a general mechanism by which timing of gene expression is regulated?

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