Structure and function of the egg cortex from oogenesis through fertilization.
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0012-1606/01 $35.00 © 2001 Elsevier Science All rights reserved. periphery of the cell. The cortex functions as a boundary zone that gives the cell its shape, a region of selective exchanges and transductions, an active partner for the cytosolic cytoskeleton and organelles, and a preferred site for the localization of RNA and protein determinants. It has properties of a visco-elastic gel and functions as a unit during many cell behaviors. There is no consensus definition of the limits of the cell cortex. It generally refers to a
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Developmental biology
دوره 241 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002