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IN a recent communication in Nature, Yuasa1 contends that the ‘side-body’ of the spores of Bacillus megaterium is identical with the spindle of the dividing yeast nucleus, and acts as such in a mitotic division of the bacterial nucleus.
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JEYNES, M. Nucleus and Spindle of Bacillus megaterium in Fission and Sporulation. Nature 177, 849 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177849a0
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