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slow border cells, a locus required for a developmentally regulated cell migration during oogenesis, encodes

D J Montell1, P Rorth, A C Spradling

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Embryology, Baltimore, Maryland 21210.

Cell
|October 2, 1992
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