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L'action cytologique du dioxyde de selenium pendant la segmentation de l'œuf de Pleurodeles waltlii Michah

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Selenium dioxyde M/100 and M/200, during egg segmentation, produces, after 1 hour, chromosomal alterations and disturbance of the poles. Cellular centers are subdivided and pericentral material is reorganized into “pseudospindles”, and “hollow poles”. During these phenomena the principal center persists in the middle of the figure, surrounded by secondary centers, which are peripherically disposed. The polar structure of the segmentation mitoses is therefore a complex one. The lessening of the fibrillogenetic activity favours an accelerated division of centrioles, but the dominance of the principal center on the secondary ones is not immediately suppressed. Anaphases are characterized by a formation of the achromatic apparatus, but the chromosomes cannot move, despite the evolution of the poles. Telophasic transformation and cytodieresis are inhibited. When telophase occurs before inhibition of the anaphasic movement, pericentral material appears as condensed and deprived of fibrillae. The interaction between achromatic and chromatic lesions is discussed.

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Sentein, P. L'action cytologique du dioxyde de selenium pendant la segmentation de l'œuf de Pleurodeles waltlii Michah. Chromosoma 17, 336–366 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00348793

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