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(More customer reviews)This is a great book! Dr. Rappaport examines numerous theories of cytokinesis from very early on in cell division research. I can't tell you how much I learned from the book. The only downfall is that the focus is on equatorial stimulation models for furrow formation. Other than that, it seems to be a very objective book and I highly recommend it.
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This book traces the history of some of the major ideas in the field and gives an account of our current knowledge of animal cytokinesis. It contains descriptions of division in different kinds of cells and the proposed explanations of the mechanisms underlying the visible events. The author also describes and explains experiments devised to test cell division theories. The forces necessary for cytokinesis now appear to originate from the interaction of linear polymers and motor molecules that have roles in force production, motion and shape change that occur in other phases of the biology of the cell. The localization of the force-producing mechanism to a restricted linear part of the subsurface is caused by the mitotic apparatus, the same cytoskeletal structure that insures orderly mitosis.
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