Cilia are microtubule/membrane-based protrusions that mediate cell motility or transduce sensory information. New work in Chlamydomonas demonstrates that cilia can also act as secretory organelles by budding enzyme-containing vesicles from the flagellar membrane for post-mitotic hatching of daughters from the mother cell wall.
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