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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bioessays. 2017 Sep 28;39(11):10.1002/bies.201700122. doi: 10.1002/bies.201700122

Figure 1. Precision of centering the mitotic spindles during metaphase in various eukaryotic cells and in-vitro systems.

Figure 1

Clockwise from the upper left: Mitotic cell drawn by W. Fleming in 1882 [108] (Not at scale). Fission yeast cell (kindly provided by Prof. Iva Tolic). A HeLa cell with fluorescently labeled (α-tubulin antibody) microtubules, DNA and actin (Prof. Linda Wordeman). Single cell from a Nematostella embryo (32-cell stage) fluorescently labeled with EB1-GFP (Dr. Katerina Ragkousi – Gibson Lab). Sea urchin zygote with fluorescently labelled microtubules (Prof. Victoria Foe). Single-cell Cerebratulus marginatus zygote with fluorescently labelled microtubules and DNA (Prof. George von Dassow). C. elegans zygote with fluorescently labelled microtubules (β-tubulin:GFP). Fluorescently labelled microtubules growing from a fluorescently labelled bead inside a squared-shaped chamber (Prof. Marleen Dogterom). Compressed PTK2 cell labeled with GFP-α-tubulin (Joshua Guild – Dumond Lab). Four–cell zebrafish embryo with fluorescently labelled microtubules (Elisa Rieckhoff – Brugues Lab). Notice that the zebrafish embryo has a different scale bar.