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TOO MANY SPINDLES
| Organism | : | Ascidian |
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| Species | : | Phallusia mammillata |
| Description | : | Most tubulin is kept under its monomeric form in meiotic cell cycle arrested oocytes. Perturbation of the MAPK pathway in the Ascidian Phallusia Mammillata non fertilized oocyte induces the formation of many microtubules (red) originating from gamma-tubulin rich MTOCs (yellow in the overlay) which associate altogether into a network of dozens of mini-spindles filling up the entire cytoplasm. This network is connected to the real meiotic spindle (top). |
| Project | : | Concours photo MICA |
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| Tags | : | Microtubules Tubulin MAPK |
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