WormBook: Polarity establishment chapter updated

Polarity establishment, asymmetric division and segregation of fate determinants in early C. elegans embryos, by Lesilee Rose and Pierre Goenczy, has been published in the Developmental control and Cell biology sections of WormBook. This chapter updates their 2005 chapter, Asymmetric cell division and axis formation in the embryo. The updated chapter presents important progress in elucidating the mechanisms that transform an isotropic system into a polarized one in the first cell cycle, and further discusses how cell signaling in subsequent divisions builds upon the initial polarity to further refine cell fates.

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Jane

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