PUZZLING CONTRACTILE RINGS

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Feb 2003 English Publisher:The Company of BiologistsJournal:Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 206, pages 428-428 (issn: 0022-0949, eissn: 1477-9145,

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Authors: Hans Merzendorfer;

doi: 10.1242/jeb.00129

PUZZLING CONTRACTILE RINGS

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![Figure][1] What is the driving force within a living cell that allows separation of daughter cells during cytokinesis? In many eukaryotes cell division requires the formation of a contractile ring, composed of actin and myosin filaments, that generates force to cleave the cell. How this

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