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Science 23 January 1981:
Vol. 211. no. 4480, pp. 402 - 405
DOI: 10.1126/science.7194506
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Science, Vol 211, Issue 4480, 402-405
Copyright © 1981 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Nematode development after removal of egg cytoplasm: absence of localized unbound determinants

JS Laufer and G von Ehrenstein

Embryos of Caenorhabditis elegans develop into fertile adults after cell fragments, containing presumptive cytoplasm of somatic and germ line precursors, are extruded from uncleaved eggs or early blastomeres through laser-induced holes in the eggshells. This suggests that the determinate development of this worm is not dependent on the prelocalization of determinants in specific regions of the egg cytoplasm.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Cell Determination during Early Embryogenesis of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
E. Schierenberg (1985)
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 50, 59-68
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