Gene replacement in Dictyostelium: generation of myosin null mutants.

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Published in EMBO J on March 01, 1989

Authors

D J Manstein1, M A Titus, A De Lozanne, J A Spudich

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1: Department of Cell Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305.

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