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Nature Cell Biology 4, 715–719 (1 September 2002) | doi:10.1038/ncb848

Invasive cell migration is initiated by guided growth of long cellular extensions

Tudor A. Fulga & Pernille R|[oslash]|rth

The migration of border cells during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis is a simple and powerful system for studying invasive cell migration in vivo. Border cells are somatic cells that delaminate from the follicular epithelium of an egg chamber and invade the germ line cluster.