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ACCORDING to Bullough1, the principal process providing energy for mitosis is the oxidation of glucose during the period before prophase (antephase or pre-prophase). His views are not generally accepted2 and cannot be extended to all instances of cell division3. On the other hand, they appear to hold for cleaving sea urchin eggs and for those of some other animals as the respiration rate of eggs increases during the period before mitosis4,5. Unfortunately, these results have not been substantiated by other authors6 so that the question of the respiration cycle during egg cleavage remains open.
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ZOTIN, A. Rate of Glucose Oxidation in Sea Urchin Eggs. Nature 213, 529–530 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213529a0
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