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Germ-cell attraction

Nature volume 421, pages 226–227 (2003)Cite this article

Cells must often travel long distances to carry out their assigned tasks in the body. New work reveals how the precursors of eggs and sperm are guided during their epic journey to the gonads.

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Figure 1: Guiding primordial germ cells (PGCs) in zebrafish.

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    Prabhat S. Kunwar & Ruth Lehmann

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