Spindle reorganizes (VIDEO)

Northwestern University

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Spindle without the motor protein dynein. After the spindle breaks apart, microtubule bundles reorganize around individual chromosomes. Shortly after reorganization, anaphase-like separation occurs synchronously across all chromosomes.

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Sadie Wignall/Northwestern University/eLife

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