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Unexpected diversity of cnidarian integrins: expression during coral gastrulation.
BMC evolutionary biology - 9 May 2008
Knack Brent A, Iguchi Akira, Shinzato Chuya, Hayward David C, Ball Eldon E, Miller David J
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BACKGROUND: Adhesion mediated through the integrin family of cell surface receptors is central to early development throughout the Metazoa, playing key roles in cell-extra cellular matrix adhesion and modulation of cadherin activity during the convergence and extension movements of gastrulation. It has been suggested that Caenorhabditis elegans, which has a single beta and two alpha integrins, might reflect the...
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