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Symmetry Breaking in Stem Cells of the Basal Metazoan Hydra

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Bosch, T.C.G. (2007). Symmetry Breaking in Stem Cells of the Basal Metazoan Hydra. In: Macieira-Coelho, A. (eds) Asymmetric Cell Division. Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69161-7_3

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