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Control of Cell Polarity and Morphogenesis in Fission Yeast

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The Molecular Biology of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

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How do fission yeast cells grow as rods and not spheres or amoebas? How do cells regulate their size? How do cells perceive space, measure distances and determine angles? How do cells regulate spatial order among their organelles and other components? These questions represent one of the frontiers in cell and developmental biology that will ultimately lead to understanding how individual cellular components assemble to give rise to cells and then organisms.

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  1. Department of Genetics, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 2A, 1353, Copenhagen K, Denmark

    Richard Egel

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Chang, F., Verde, F. (2004). Control of Cell Polarity and Morphogenesis in Fission Yeast. In: Egel, R. (eds) The Molecular Biology of Schizosaccharomyces pombe . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10360-9_16

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