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Science 26 January 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5811, pp. 469 - 470
DOI: 10.1126/science.1138237
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
The Mother of All Stem Cells?

Allan C. Spradling and Yixian Zheng

Partitioning of centrosomes during division of Drosophila germline stem cells may help keep one daughter as a stem cell and move the other toward differentiation.

The authors are in the Department of Embryology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Carnegie Institution, 3520 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. E-mail: spradling{at}ciwemb.edu

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