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Published Online:22 Mar 2018https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.18-01-0011

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© 2018 C. Harrison and K. D. Tanner. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2018 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

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