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VII.—Nuclear Osmosis as a Factor in Mitosis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2012
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The recent important work of Farmer and Digby (1910) on the cytology of certain varietal and hybrid ferns has raised again the interesting and absorbing question of the mechanism of mitosis. This paper constitutes a valuable addition to the literature which has bulked so largely during the last few years, and which has been instrumental in establishing many interesting and important facts regarding the greatest of all cytological problems—namely, nuclear division. The interest of this later contribution lies, not so much in the actual observations which these writers have jointly recorded—although the facts revealed are important in that they confirm the work of other writers and extend the range of observation,—but rather in the theory which they have deduced from their results and which they have put forward to account for the factors at work in the living cell,—factors which they believe to be concerned in the formation of the achromatic spindle.
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- Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , 1912 , pp. 137 - 161
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- Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1912
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