FIGURE 5:

Summary. Spindle morphologies associated with perturbations of chromosome individualization. Schematic representation of the conclusions. Perturbations that favor plus end–directed forces decrease chromosome individualization (left arrow). Perturbations that favors minus end–directed forces increase chromosome individualization (right arrow). In the bottom row, the morphologies of the system were represented, based on the results from Table 1: microtubules are in green, chromosomes in blue, and aMTOCs in red. The regime in which spindlelike structures can form and do not collapse is limited by dashed lines.