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A Novel Computer Model for Generating Cell Shape: Application to Fungal Morphogenesis

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The question of how fungal cells attain their characteristic morphology has long been of great interest to experimental and theoretical biologists. Much of this attention has centered on hyphae, the tip-growing tubular cells typical of fungi (for a recent comprehensive review of fungal apical growth see Wessels 1986).

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  1. Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, California, 92521, USA

    G. Gierz

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of California, Riverside, California, 92521, USA

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  1. Sittingbourne Research Centre, Shell Research Ltd., ME9 8AG, Sittingbourne, Kent, UK

    Paul J. Kuhn  & Michael W. Goosey  & 

  2. Microbiology Group Department of Cell & Structural Biology School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK

    Anthony P. J. Trinci

  3. Dow Agricultural Products, R & D, Letcombe Laboratory, Letcombe Regis, OX12 9JT, Wantage, Oxfordshire, UK

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Bartnicki-Garcia, S., Hergert, F., Gierz, G. (1990). A Novel Computer Model for Generating Cell Shape: Application to Fungal Morphogenesis. In: Kuhn, P.J., Trinci, A.P.J., Jung, M.J., Goosey, M.W., Copping, L.G. (eds) Biochemistry of Cell Walls and Membranes in Fungi. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74215-6_4

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