Disinherited daughters travel by tube.
Reporting in Developmental Cell, Packard et al. (2013) identify a peculiar mitotic behavior in ureteric bud tips whereby dividing cells leave the epithelium for the lumen, retaining only a slender connection with basement membrane. One daughter inherits its mother's location, whereas the other moves along the lumen and reintegrates there.
Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK. Electronic address: jamie.davies@ed.ac.uk.
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D000818:Animals; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D007668:Kidney / Q000166:cytology*; D008938:Mitosis / Q000502:physiology*; D009024:Morphogenesis; D014513:Ureter / Q000166:cytology*
D018398:Homeodomain Proteins; C093253:Hoxb7 protein, mouse