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A new meiotic abnormality in Zea mays: multiple spindles associated with abnormal cytokinesis in both divisions.
Genome - 1 Oct 2001
Caetano-Pereira C M, Pagliarini M S
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Abstract: We report here a new meiotic abnormality recorded in one plant of an inbred line of Zea mays. After an apparently normal prophase I, chromosomes did not congregate in a single metaphase plate. Bivalents remained scattered in the cytoplasm, giving rise to several spindles. Despite the occurrence of multiple spindles, meiosis I proceeded normally, forming a varied number of nuclei at telophase I. The...
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