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Pigment cells: a model for the study of organelle transport

Alexandra A Nascimento1, Joseph T Roland, Vladimir I Gelfand

  • 1Department of Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. alexa@life.uiuc.edu

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
|October 23, 2003
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