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Peculiar spindle configuration in the pollen tube revealed by the anti-tubulin immunofluorescence method

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The spindles in generative cell divisions within the pollen tubes ofCalanthe andImpatiens were revealed by anti-α-tubulin immunofluorescence methods. They were peculiar configurations in which the metaphase chromosomes lay tandemly in some lines along the spindle axis and the sister chromosomes separated anti-parallelly by the spindle elongation during anaphase.

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  1. Department of Biology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Kokuryo, Chofu, 182, Tokyo

    Osamu Terasaka & Tsuneyoshi Niitsu

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Terasaka, O., Niitsu, T. Peculiar spindle configuration in the pollen tube revealed by the anti-tubulin immunofluorescence method. Bot. Mag. Tokyo 102, 143–147 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02488119

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