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SEVERAL investigations1–3 of chromosomal RNA synthesis during mitosis have established that such synthesis, maximal in interphase, continues during mitotic prophase. It decreases progressively as chromosome contraction advances, none occurring during the fully contracted stages of metaphase and anaphase. RNA synthesis recommences with chromosome despiralization at late telophase.
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HENDERSON, S. Differential Ribonucleic Acid Synthesis of X and Autosomes during Meiosis. Nature 200, 1235 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/2001235a0
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