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. 2003 Mar 31;160(7):989-90.
doi: 10.1083/jcb.200303005.

A perfect funeral with no corpse

William C Earnshaw  1 , Mar Carmena
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A perfect funeral with no corpse

William C Earnshaw et al. J Cell Biol. .

Abstract

"Indeed, the role in mitosis of the chromosome arms, which carry most of the genetic material, may be compared with that of a corpse at a funeral: they provide the reason for the proceedings but do not take an active part in them." (Mazia, 1961)

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Diagrams showing the normal events of meiosis I & II, and the unusual events of meiosis II that occur in Drosophila fusolo and solofuso mutants. Chromosomes (blue); microtubules (green); Aurora B (red). This kinase is initially associated with centromeres but binds to the central spindle after anaphase.
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