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Cell division in diatoms

A translation of part of Robert Lauterborn's treatise of 1896 with some modern confirmatory observations

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Pickett-Heaps, J.D., Schmid, A.M.M. & Tippit, D.H. Cell division in diatoms. Protoplasma 120, 132–154 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01287625

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