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    Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2006 Feb;7(2):147-52.

    Not so divided: the common basis of plant and animal cell division.

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    Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK. clive.lloyd@bbsrc.ac.uk

    Abstract

    Plant cells do not have centrioles and their mitosis is frequently likened to the chromosome-based mechanism seen in acentriolar animal cells. However, this is a false analogy. Although plants can use this mechanism, they generally divide by a method that uses bipolar mitotic caps, which is more similar to the canonical centrosome-based method of animals.

    PMID:
    16493420
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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