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Basic Caenorhabditis elegans Methods: Synchronization and Observation
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As good as they get: cells in nematode vulva development and evolution
1Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Spemannstrasse 37-39, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany. ralf.sommer@tuebingen.mpg.de
Current Opinion in Cell Biology
|November 8, 2001
Abstract:
Cells are important modules of biological systems, and many evolutionary alterations involve changes in cell determination and cell proliferation. Genetic and molecular comparisons of nematode vulva development between Caenorhabditis, Pristionchus and Oscheius indicate that although the vulva is a stable organ, cell determination and proliferation change dramatically during nematode evolution.
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