Microtubule flux in mitosis is independent of chromosomes, centrosomes, and antiparallel microtubules.

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Published in Mol Biol Cell on February 01, 1994

Authors

K E Sawin1, T J Mitchison

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1: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0448.

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