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We have devised a protocol for the cloning of our cell lines, and have demonstrated that a cloned line may contain cells of widely differing morphology — epithelial, fibroblast-like, and lamellocyte-like. These different morphologies must therefore represent diversity in the microenvironment of the culture rather than diversity in the cellular origin of the line.
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Peel, D.J., Milner, M.J. The diversity of cell morphology in cloned cell lines derived from Drosophila imaginal discs. Roux's Arch Dev Biol 198, 479–482 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00399059
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