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A note on the behaviour of spindle fibres at mitosis

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Measurements done on mitosis in plant endosperm with the use of Dr. Inoué's polarizing microscope indicate that the whole chromosomal spindle fibre is shifted during anaphase, i.e. the distance between the spindle pole and the polar end of the spindle fibre decreases during anaphase. Consequently in endosperm mitosis the chromosomes move faster to the poles than the chromosomal spindle fibres decrease in length. As the chromosomal spindle fibres in animal materials presumably extend to the spindle poles already from the beginning of anaphase, the chromosomes will here approach the poles with the same speed, as the spindle fibres contract.

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  1. Institute of Genetics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

    A. Bajer

  2. Laboratory of Plant Physiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Grodzka 53, Cracow, Poland

    A. Bajer

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This paper is dedicated to Professor Franz Schrader on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.

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Bajer, A. A note on the behaviour of spindle fibres at mitosis. Chromosoma 12, 64–71 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00328914

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