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Coupling between the initiation of DNA replication and cell division in the blue-green alga Anacystis nidulans

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The effect of mitomycin C on cell mass increase, cell division, RNA synthesis and DNA synthesis in the blue-green alga Anacystis nidulans has been examined. Data suggests that the initiation of DNA replication, rather than its termination was the necessary event for cell division to occur.

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Mann, N., Carr, N.G. Coupling between the initiation of DNA replication and cell division in the blue-green alga Anacystis nidulans . Arch. Microbiol. 112, 95–98 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00446659

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