Abstract Detrimental effects of weight lessness are no longer expected to hinder successful mitosis. Experiments in space and on the fast clinostat give no hints of this. Nevertheless we are thinking of a g sensitivity during the process of chromosome condensation and distribution. The time course of nuclear division in microplasmodia of the slime mold was investigated under 0 g simulation on the fast rotating clinostat in comparison to 1 g controls. The result of this experiment is: A significant shortening of mitosis under 0 g simulation compared to 1 g controls.
Influence of zero gravity simulation on time course of mitosis in microplasmodia of physarum polycephalum
Advances in Space Research ; 3 , 9 ; 259-262
1983-01-01
4 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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