Cell migrations during morphogenesis: So
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Keith L. Williams; Phil. H. Vardy; Lee A. Segel
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1986
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Starvation induces free-living Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae to form slugs that typically contain 100,000 cells. Only recently have suficient clues become available to suggest how coordinated cell actions might result in slug movement. We propose a 'squeeze-pull' model that involves circumferenti