cytokinesis
thumb|upright=1.35|Diagram of cytokinesis
Research
13,765 papers- Cytokinesis defects and cancer.Nature reviews. Cancer · 2019
- Myosins in Cytokinesis.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2020
- Symmetry-breaking of animal cytokinesis.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2022
- Lipid Polarization during Cytokinesis.Cells · 2022
- Positioning cytokinesis.Genes & development · 2009
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Article
15 sectionsContents
- Etymology and pronunciation
- Animal cell
- Anaphase spindle reorganization
- Division plane specification
- Actin-myosin ring assembly and contraction
- Abscission
- Timing cytokinesis
- Plant cell
- Forces
- Animal cells
- Proteins involved in cytokinesis
- Clinical significance
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|upright=1.35|Diagram of cytokinesis
Cytokinesis () is the final stage of cell division in the cell cycle, following mitosis. During cytokinesis the cytoplasm of a single eukaryotic cell is divided into two daughter cells. The cell's spindle apparatus partitions and transports duplicated chromatids into the cytoplasm of the separating daughter cells. It thereby ensures that chromosome number and complement are maintained from one generation to the next and that, except in special cases, the daughter cells will be functional copies of the parent cell.