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Conversion of ectoderm to mesoderm by cytoplasmic extrusion in leech embryos

B H Nelson, D A Weisblat

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |July 26, 1991
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    cell differentiationblastomere fatedevelopmental biologycytoplasmic determinants

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