Advocating asymmetry and the POP-1 paradox: noncanonical Wnt signaling in C. elegans.
In this issue of Cell, Kidd and colleagues (Kidd et al., 2005) describe their identification of a novel beta-catenin that functions in noncanonical C. elegans Wnt signaling pathways to specify the different fates of daughter cells produced by asymmetric cell division.
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Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA.
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