Central role for Cdc42 in yeast budding Park and Bi, 2007
Conserved polarity elements Thompson, 2013
Early asymmetry in C. elegans Kemphues, 2000
Par proteins and asymmetry Munro and Bowerman, 2009
Asymmetry of cell division
Asymmetric distribution of par proteins Par6-GFP Par2-GFP Munro et al., 2004 Schonegg and Hyman, 2006
Asymmetric myosin and Cdc42 flow Nmy2-GFP Cdc42-GFP Munro et al., 2004 Schonegg and Hyman, 2006
Jenkins et al., 2006
Thompson, 2013
Epithelial organs form lumens
The three epithelial polarity complexes Humbert et al., 2008
PIP distribution in migrating cells
PIP distribution in epithelia
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