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Syncytial specification

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Positional specification of nuclei in a shared cytoplasm before complete cellularization, allowing spatial signals to influence nuclear transcription without conventional cell boundaries.
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Syncytial blastoderm

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Syncytial specification
An early insect embryonic stage with many nuclei sharing cytoplasm before cellularization. Transcriptional patterning can therefore precede formation of individual cell boundaries.

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