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Science 27 February 1976:
Vol. 191. no. 4229, pp. 866 - 868
DOI: 10.1126/science.814620
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Science, Vol 191, Issue 4229, 866-868
Copyright © 1976 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Measurement of an inhibitory zone

GJ Mitchison, M Wilcox, and RJ Smith

An inhibitory zone mechanism generates the heterocyst pattern in Anabaena. These inhibitory zones can be measured; we find that they extend about five cells on either side of a heterocyst. We can use our observations to predict with reasonable accuracy which cells in the filaments will differentiate into heterocysts.


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