Reply to: Assessing the precision of morphogen gradients in neural tube development

Abstract

In a recent article [Vetter and Iber, Nat. Commun. 13, 1145 (2022)], we demonstrated that single morphogen gradients in the developing mouse neural tube can carry sufficient positional accuracy to explain the patterning precision of progenitor domain boundaries. Zagorski et al. had previously concluded otherwise [Zagorski et al., Science 356, 1379-1383 (2017)], based on methodological inconsistencies that we have revealed. The authors now comment on our work with a Matters Arising letter. We rebut their criticism point by point in the Supplement, and summarize the main aspects here.

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