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Nuclear migration: Endless efforts toward unraveling its molecular apparatus

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Nuclear migration is a non-random movement of nucleus toward specific site in the cell in many eukaryotes and essential to normal cellular activities of growth, division and development. It is shown that cytoskeleton and its associated proteins are involved in this process, which have been best analyzed in yeast and filamentous fungi but just started in higher plants. The purpose of this review is to comment the advances in this field.

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    Heng Liu, Guangqin Guo & Guochang Zheng

  2. Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Academy of Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China

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Liu, H., Guo, G., He, Y. et al. Nuclear migration: Endless efforts toward unraveling its molecular apparatus. Chin.Sci.Bull. 48, 615–619 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03325639

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