Centriole Numbers Drop After Centriole Duplication Is Halted (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Centriole Numbers Drop After Centriole Duplication Is Halted

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After cells are treated with auxin to prevent centriole duplication, the number of centrioles (green dots) per cell is halved with each cell division. The number of days of auxin treatment is shown at left. DNA shown in blue.

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<i>Journal of Cell Biology</i>

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