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Science 20 January 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5759, pp. 343 - 344
DOI: 10.1126/science.1123525
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Serving Up a Plate of Chromosomes

Rebecca Heald

Before being pulled into their respective daughter cells, duplicated chromosomes line up at the center of the cell. Video microscopy and high-resolution electron microscopy show how this precise arrangement is set up by the cell.

The author is in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. E-mail: bheald{at}calmail.berkeley.edu

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