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Nature 428, 371 (25 March 2004) | doi:10.1038/428371a
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Concept Cell bodies in a cage
Franti
ek Baluka1,
Dieter Volkmann1
&
Peter W. Barlow2
- Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, Kirschallee 1, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK.
The concept of the cell as the fundamental structural and functional unit of a multicellular organism stems from the observations of Robert Hooke in 1665 and Nehemiah Grew in 1682, both of whom reported on the 'cells' of plant tissues. It was 150 years before the universal 'German cell theory' — as it was originally known — was proposed by Theodore Schwann and Matthias Schleiden, but even this was not widely accepted for another 100 years.
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javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
root cause
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
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