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We thank N. Gunkel for help in screening cDNAs, A. Cyrklaff for salivary-gland chromosome squashes, A-M. Michon for immunohistochemistry, T. Vaccari for western blots, A. Spradling and P. Tolias for their gifts of cDNA libraries, D. St Johnston for anti-STAU antibody and J. Knoblich and H. Strober for anti- Drosophila PAR antibody. We also thank P. Gönczy and T. Vaccari for critical reading of the manuscript, and J. M. Schulman and D. St Johnston for sharing their observations concerning Drosophila par-1. Their analysis (Schulman et al., Cell 101, 377–388, 2000) was published while this paper was under review. P.T. was supported by an EMBL predoctoral fellowship, F.P. by a cancer centre research fund (DRG-1404) of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation Fellowship, and V.R. by an EMBO long-term fellowship. This work was supported by grants from the EMBL (to A.E.) and the NICHD (HD27689; to K.K.).
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Tomancak, P., Piano, F., Riechmann, V. et al. A Drosophila melanogaster homologue of Caenorhabditis elegans par-1 acts at an early step in embryonic-axis formation. Nat Cell Biol 2, 458–460 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35017101
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