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. 2018 May 29;19(1):63.
doi: 10.1186/s13059-018-1453-x.

On the journey from nematode to human, scientists dive by the zebrafish cell lineage tree

Ehud Shapiro  1
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On the journey from nematode to human, scientists dive by the zebrafish cell lineage tree

Ehud Shapiro. Genome Biol. .

Abstract

Three recent single-cell papers use novel CRISPR-Cas9-sgRNA genome editing methods to shed light on the zebrafish cell lineage tree.

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The author declares that he has no competing interests.

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