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. 2018 May 21;45(4):421-423.
doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.05.007.

The Incredible Shrinking Spindle

Christopher Brownlee  1 , Rebecca Heald  2
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The Incredible Shrinking Spindle

Christopher Brownlee et al. Dev Cell. .
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Abstract

As cell size decreases during the reductive divisions of early development, intracellular structures must shrink to fit. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Lacroix et al. (2018) identify a conserved mechanism of spindle scaling in nematode and sea urchin embryos whereby spindle microtubule polymerization rates decrease as development proceeds.

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