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CELL behaviour has been studied widely in tissue culture, and in many cases individual cells have been shown to inhibit the locomotion of cells with which they make contact1. In the embryo, however, cells move mainly in sheets2 or streams3–5 and in the latter case their locomotion does not appear to be contact inhibited6. The question, then, is how the behaviour of individual cells is coordinated in these organised morphogenetic movements. While studying isolated deep cells of the fish, Fundulus heteroclitus, we have made some observations which relate to this question.
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TICKLE, C., TRINKAUS, J. Observations on nudging cells in culture. Nature 261, 413 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/261413a0
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