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Hypoangular: a gene potentially involved in specifying positional information in a ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophila.
Developmental biology - 1 Dec 1993
Frankel J, Jenkins L M, Nelsen E M, Stoltzman C A
Abstract excerpt
In Tetrahymena, two unique cell-surface structures, the oral apparatus and the cytoproct, are formed at opposite ends of one ciliary row, the reference meridian, which is propagated longitudinally during clonal growth. A third set of unique structures, the contractile vacuole pore(s) (CVP), is located at a nearly constant proportion of the cell circumference to the cell's right of the reference meridian. Three...
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