Mitotic chromosomes scale to nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio and cell size in Xenopus

During the rapid and reductive cleavage divisions of early embryogenesis, subcellular structures such as the nucleus and mitotic spindle scale to decreasing cell size. Mitotic chromosomes also decrease in size during development, presumably to scale coordinately with mitotic spindles, but the underl...

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Main Authors: Coral Y Zhou, Bastiaan Dekker, Ziyuan Liu, Hilda Cabrera, Joel Ryan, Job Dekker, Rebecca Heald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2023-04-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/84360