Diverse roles of actin in C. elegans early embryogenesis.

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Published in BMC Dev Biol on December 24, 2007

Authors

Nathalie Velarde1, Kristin C Gunsalus, Fabio Piano

Author Affiliations

1: New York University, Department of Biology and Center for Comparative Functional Genomics, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003, USA. nvv206@nyu.edu

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