Table 2.

Abscission duration varies in cell types and species and may decrease as differentiation proceeds. All times are means except times between 1st and 2nd abscissions which are medians. Note that comparisons are approximate since different methods of imaging were used.

	Cell type	Measurement	Duration		Refs
			Time to 1st abscission	Time between 1st and 2nd abscission
Cell lines in vitro	HeLa	Furrow ingression to MT disassembly	49– 68 min	Median: 7.5–14.5 min	10, 36
	NS5 (mouse NSC cell line)	Arbitrary point in telophase to MT disassembly	100 min	avg 40min	16
	MDCK (dissociated)	Anaphase to MT disassembly	2 h	avg 20min	80
		MB formation to MT disassembly	90 min	?	55
	mouse ES cell line	MB formation to MT disassembly	naïve pluripotent: 8+ h pluripotency exit: ~4 h	?	69
	Drosophila epithelium (notum)	Anaphase onset to MT disassembly	MT disassembly at 42 min. Diffusion up to 5 h	No abscission on 2nd flank	58
Tissues in vivo	Zebrafish Blastula	MB formation to MBR release	Cell cycle 7: 40 min Cell cycle 12: ~ 20 min	?	72
	C. elegans first cell division	Furrow ingression to MT disassembly	~6.5 min	?	81
	mouse NSCs in embryonic cortex explant	MB formation to MT disassembly	E11.5: 57 min E13.5: 47 min	Medians: E11.5: 30 min E13.5: 15 min	65

Abbreviations are as follows: MT microtubules, MB midbody, avg average, h hours, min minutes