A Kinesin, InvA, Plays an Essential Role in Volvox Morphogenesis
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A Kinesin, InvA, Plays an Essential Role in Volvox Morphogenesis
In Volvox carteri adults, reproductive cells called gonidia are enclosed within a spherical monolayer of biflagellate somatic cells. Embryos must "invert" (turn inside out) to achieve this configuration, however, because at the end of cleavage the gonidia are on the outside and the flagellar ends of all somatic cells point inward. Generation of a bend region adequate to turn the embryo inside o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cell
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0092-8674
DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(03)00431-8