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The possibility of drawing conclusions about the nature of the forces acting upon the chromosomes during division from observation of the rates of their movement in anaphase is pointed out. Some available data are discussed, and shown to agree quantitatively with the assumption that during anaphase the chromosomes are pulled apart by contracting elastic fibers.
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Rash. Vsky, N. Some remarks on the movement of chromosomes during cell division. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 3, 1–3 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478101
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478101