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Science 13 June 2003:
Vol. 300. no. 5626, pp. 1675 - 1677
DOI: 10.1126/science.1086055
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Perspectives

CELL BIOLOGY:
Persistence Pays

Patricia Wadsworth

We are only just beginning to understand the elegant choreography of microtubules as they self-organize into arrays that drive key cellular events, such as motility and mitosis. In her Perspective, Wadsworth discusses a new imaging study (Shaw et al.) that reveals how microtubule arrays form in plant cells that lack a centrosomal organizing center.

The author is in the Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. E-mail: patw{at}bio.umass.edu

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Microtubule Dynamics in Living Root Hairs: Transient Slowing by Lipochitin Oligosaccharide Nodulation Signals.
V. N. Vassileva, H. Kouchi, and R. W. Ridge (2005)
PLANT CELL 17, 1777-1787
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