PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Hamaratoglu, Fisun AU - Basler, Konrad AU - Affolter, Markus TI - Confronting Morphogen Gradients: How Important Are They for Growth? AID - 10.1126/scisignal.294pe67 DP - 2009 Oct 27 TA - Science Signaling PG - pe67--pe67 VI - 2 IP - 94 4099 - http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/2/94/pe67.short 4100 - http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/2/94/pe67.full SO - Sci. Signal.2009 Oct 27; 2 AB - Morphogens are crucial for regulating the patterning and the growth of organs. In the developing fly wing, graded distributions of the morphogens Decapentaplegic and Wingless are essential for tissue patterning, but when it comes to growth, evidence suggests that it may not be so.