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We thank J. Sedat and D. Agard for use of their CCD-based optical sectioning microscope and image processing facilities; R. P. Jansen and K. Nasmyth for strains; E. O'Shea for plasmids; and D. Drubin for latrunculin A. This work was supported by grants from the NIH (R.D.V. and I.H.) and a grant from the Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon–Walter Winchell Foundation Fellowship (J.R.S.).
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Takizawa, P., Sil, A., Swedlow, J. et al. Actin-dependent localization of an RNA encoding a cell-fate determinant in yeast. Nature 389, 90–93 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/38015
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