Ultrastructural study of Haematococcus lacustris (Girod.) Rostafinski (Volvocales). II. Mitosis and cytokinesis.

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An ultrastructural study was conducted of cell division in H. lacustris. The nuclear envelope is maintained intact practically throughout mitosis, as it only breaks down at the end of telophase when the daughter nuclei are separated. The disappearance of the nucleolus, which in the interphase nuclei display the 2 typical structural components (granulous and fibrillar), is sometimes delayed, since in late metaphase, early anaphase the nucleolus clearly organized was observed. The spindle microtubules (MTS) apparently have an exclusively endonuclear origin, as neither through polar fenestrae nor nuclear pores do they appear related with any extranuclear structure. In metaphase and anaphase the above endonuclear spindle is formed by continuous and chromosomic MTS. The former are persistent in the interzonal region up to telophase latter are deep in the chromatin, sometimes in apparently differentiated chromosomic regions (centromeres). In late anaphase, early telophase, the nucleus is seen more elongated, sometimes curved and repeatedly with dilated ends (dumbell shaped). The nuclear envelope of the telophasic nucleus breaks down in the middle-region and surrounds the 2 chromosomic groups (daughter nuclei). Between them, a growing cleavage furrow (invagination of the plasmalemma) ends by leading to the division of the protoplast (cytokinesis). This cleavage furrow is always associated to a microtubular system (phycoplast) similar to that which has been described in other algae.

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