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Description

The time lapse movie shows several sequences of mitosis in the liquid endosperm of the African Blood Lily Haemanthus katherinae imaged by polarizing microscopy. Birefringent microtubules are attached to each pair of chromatids at metaphase and, in the last sequences that include early telophase, birefringence is confimed to the forming phragmoplast (cell plate).

Technical Details

See: S. Inoue and A. Bajer (1961) Birefringence in endosperm mitosis. Chromosoma 12:48-63.

Biological Sources

NCBI Organism Classification: Haemanthus katharinae
Cell Type: endosperm
Cellular Component: spindle

Biological Context

Biological Process

Attribution

Names: Shinya Inoue; Andrew Bajer; Jean Mole Bajer
Published: S. Inoue 2008 Collected Works of Shinya Inoue. World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, Hackensack, NJ, USA

Citation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): doi:10.7295/W9CIL11953
Archival Resource Key (ARK): ark:/b7295/w9cil11953

Imaging

Image Type: recorded image
Image Mode: polarization microscopy
Parameters Imaged: retardance
Source of Contrast: form birefringence
Visualization Methods: visualization of contiguous regions
Data Qualifiers: processed data

Sample Preparation

Methods: living tissue
Relation To Intact Cell: whole mounted tissue

Dimensions

Spatial Axis	Image Size	Pixel Size
X	720px	——
Y	480px	——