Advocating Asymmetry and the POP-1 Paradox: Noncanonical Wnt Signaling in C. elegans
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In this issue of Cell, Kidd and colleagues (Kidd et al., 2005) describe their identification of a novel beta-catenin that functions in noncanonical C. elegans Wnt signaling pathways to specify the different fates of daughter cells produced by asymmetric cell division.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cell
دوره 121 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005