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Description

The time lapse movie shows the rocking motion of the spindle that appears to play a role in the unequal cleavage divisions in a fertilized Spisula solidissima (Clam) egg. Eventually, this leads to the production of three small cells and one large.

Technical Details

K Dan and S Inoue 1987 Studies of unequal cleavage in molluscs: asymmetric nature of the two asters. Int J Invert Rep Dev 11:335-354.

Biological Sources

NCBI Organism Classification: Spisula solidissima
Cell Type: oocyte; zygote

Biological Context

Biological Process: mitosis

Attribution

Names: Shinya Inoue
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/W9CIL11971
Archival Resource Key (ARK): ark:/b7295/w9cil11971

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	——