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Forty years of cellular clues from worms

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The cell divisions that occur when a larva develops into an adult Caenorhabditis elegans worm were described in a cell-lineage map in 1977. The work has provided the foundation for many discoveries about developmental mechanisms.

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Figure 1: Understanding development at a cellular level in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans.

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Sternberg, P. Forty years of cellular clues from worms. Nature 543, 628–630 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/543628a

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