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Mitosis in the Cryptophyceae

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RECENTLY a number of papers have been published describing the fine structure of nuclear division in the algae. This interest has no doubt been stimulated by the great variety of nuclear structures found and their relevance to current discussions on algal phylogeny1–3. In the past year we have had the first detailed accounts of mitosis in the Chrysophyceae4, Xanthophyceae5, Chloromonadophyceae6, Rhodophyceae7, and Phaeophyceae8. This leaves only three classes, Prasinophyceae, Eustigmatophyceae and Cryptophyceae in which details of mitosis are unrecorded. We would like to help complete the picture of algal division by making known some recent findings about mitosis in a member of the Cryptophyceae, Chroomonas salina (Wislouch) Butcher.

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    BERL R. OAKLEY & JOHN D. DODGE

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OAKLEY, B., DODGE, J. Mitosis in the Cryptophyceae. Nature 244, 521–522 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/244521a0

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