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By treating hydra as a multi-phase system with each cell type constituting a separate biological phase the minimum number of components necessary to control cell differentiation can be determined.
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MACKLIN, M. Biological Phase Relationships. Nature 217, 622–624 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217622a0
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