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The prehistory of the cytoskeleton concept
Author(s) -
Zampieri Fabio,
Coen Matteo,
Gabbiani Giulio
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
cytoskeleton
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.95
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1949-3592
pISSN - 1949-3584
DOI - 10.1002/cm.21177
Subject(s) - biology , cytoskeleton , component (thermodynamics) , prehistory , evolutionary biology , genetics , cell , paleontology , physics , thermodynamics
Here we discuss how the concept and the name of cytoskeleton were generated and started to evolve over the last two centuries into what is presently a basic topic of modern biology. We also attempt to describe some facets of the emergence of cytoskeleton component characterization in which our laboratory was in part involved. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.