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Between fore and rear the ratios of concentrations of these two proteins define an axis of co-ordinates: each point along the axis is characterized by a single ratio of the two proteins.

It results the transcription from it of the necessary genes to specify the segmentary identity of the organism: head, thorax, abdomen, etc.

(Nüsslein-Volhard et al.. 1987, Gilbert, 2004).