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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-9-21
pubmed:abstractText
This review traces the principal advances in the study of mitosis in filamentous fungi from its beginnings near the end of the 19(th) century to the present day. Meiosis and mitosis had been accurately described and illustrated by the second decade of the present century and were known to closely resemble nuclear divisions in higher eukaryotes. This information was effectively lost in the mid-1950s, and the essential features of mitosis were then rediscovered from about the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Interest in the forces that separate chromatids and spindle poles during fungal mitosis followed closely on the heels of detailed descriptions of the mitotic apparatus in vivo and ultrastructurally during this and the following decade. About the same time, fundamental studies of the structure of fungal chromatin and biochemical characterization of fungal tubulin were being carried out. These cytological and biochemical studies set the stage for a surge of renewed interest in fungal mitosis that was issued in by the age of molecular biology. Filamentous fungi have provided model studies of the cytology and genetics of mitosis, including important advances in the study of mitotic forces, microtubule-associated motor proteins, and mitotic regulatory mechanisms.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1087-1845
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 1999 Academic Press.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
27
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1-25
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Mitosis in filamentous fungi: how we got where we are.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Review