Abstract
The study of cell lineages has been, and remains, of crucial importance in developmental biology. It requires the identification of a cell or group of cells and of all of their descendants during embryonic development. Here, we provide a brief survey of how different techniques for achieving this have evolved over the last 100 years.
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Stern, C., Fraser, S. Tracing the lineage of tracing cell lineages. Nat Cell Biol 3, E216–E218 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb0901-e216
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