Dear WormBook reader,

Epithelial junctions, cytoskeleton, and polarity, by Gabriella Pásti and Michel Labouesse, has just been added to the Cell biology section of WormBook. This chapter updates Epithelial junctions and attachments, by Michel Labouesse, originally published in 2006. Focusing on cellular aspects of epithelial cells, the chapter describes basic features of C. elegans apical junctions, establishment and maintenance of epithelial polarity, the epithelial cytoskeleton, and hemidesmosome-like cell-extracellular matrix junctions.

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Jane