Stereocilia-staircase spacing is influenced by myosin III motors and their cargos espin-1 and espin-like
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Stereocilia-staircase spacing is influenced by myosin III motors and their cargos espin-1 and espin-like Seham Ebrahim1, Matthew R. Avenarius2, M’hamed Grati1, Jocelyn F. Krey2, Alanna M. Windsor1, Aurea D. Sousa1, Angela Ballesteros1, Runjia Cui1, Bryan A. Millis1, Felipe T. Salles1, Michelle A. Baird3, Michael W. Davidson3,z, Sherri M. Jones4, Dongseok Choi5, Lijin Dong6, Manmeet H. Raval7, Christopher M. Yengo7, Peter G. Barr-Gillespie2,* & Bechara Kachar1,*
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Corrigendum: Stereocilia-staircase spacing is influenced by myosin III motors and their cargos espin-1 and espin-like
This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10833.
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