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The diversity of cell morphology in cloned cell lines derived from Drosophila imaginal discs
David J Peel1, Martin J Milner1
1Department of Biology and Preclinical Medicine, University of St. Andrews, Bute Medical Building, KY16 9TS, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
Abstract:
We have devised a protocol for the cloning of our cell lines, and have demonstrated that a cloned line may contain cells of widely differing morphology - epithelial, fibroblast-like, and lamellocyte-like. These different morphologies must therefore represent diversity in the microenvironment of the culture rather than diversity in the cellular origin of the line.
