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Carlos Garzon-Coral1, Horatiu A Fantana1, Jonathon Howard2

  • 1Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|May 28, 2016
PubMed
概括

研究人员发现了一种产生力量的机制, 这种机制确保了精确的细胞分裂和定位,适应细胞大小和微管数量.

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