Microtubules, but not actin filaments, drive daughter cell budding and cell division in Toxoplasma gondii.

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Published in J Cell Sci on April 01, 2000

Authors

M K Shaw1, H L Compton, D S Roos, L G Tilney

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6018, USA. mshaw2@sas.upenn.edu.

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