Mother centrioles are kicked out so that starfish zygote can grow

Most oocytes eliminate their centrioles during meiotic divisions through unclear mechanisms. In this issue, Borrego-Pinto et al. (2016. J Cell. Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201510083) show that mother centrioles need to be eliminated from starfish oocytes by extrusion into the polar bodies fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Verlhac, Marie-Hélène
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4810309/