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Sorting of the initial cell types in Dictyostelium is dependent on the tipA gene.
Developmental biology - 1 May 1997
Stege J T, Shaulsky G, Loomis W F
Abstract excerpt
About 8 hr after the initiation of development in Dictyostelium discoideum, a few randomly scattered cells express prestalk specific genes and subsequently sort out to the top of the aggregate where they form a tip. The tip elongates and forms the anterior of the migrating slug before differentiating into a stalk which supports the ball of spores in a mature fruiting body. Using REMI mutagenesis we isolated a...
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