Article
Kinesin-14 is Important for Chromosome Segregation During Mitosis and Meiosis in the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila.
The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology - 1 May 2017
Kushida Yasuharu, Takaine Masak, Nakano Kentaro, Sugai Toshiro, Vasudevan Krishna Kumar, Guha Mayukh, Jiang Yu-Yang, Gaertig Jacek, Numata Osamu
Abstract excerpt
Ciliates such as Tetrahymena thermophila have two distinct nuclei within one cell: the micronucleus that undergoes mitosis and meiosis and the macronucleus that undergoes amitosis, a type of nuclear division that does not involve a bipolar spindle, but still relies on intranuclear microtubules. Ciliates provide an opportunity for the discovery of factors that specifically contribute to chromosome segregation...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Nucleus
- Chromosome Segregation
- Ciliophora
- Gene Knockout Techniques
- Kinesins
- Macronucleus
- Meiosis
- Meiotic Prophase I
- Metaphase
- Microtubules
- Mitosis
- Mutation
- Phylogeny