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Early encounters of the repetitive kind: a prelude to cell adhesion in conjugating Tetrahymena thermophila.
Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists - 1 Mar 1993
Brown F, Tirone S, Wolfe J
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The relationship between direct cell contacts and subsequent cell-cell adhesion was studied in the ciliated protozoan, Tetrahymena thermophila. During sexual reproduction, adhesion into pairs begins at approximately 1 hr after mixing starved complementary mating types. However, direct contacts between cells prior to pairing are known to be required for the development of adhesion-readiness. We find here that the...
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