title: Spindle size: small droplets and a big step forward.
abstract: The spindle is a micron-scale structure that assembles from nanometer-sized tubulin building blocks. How does the spindle know what size to be? Changes in cytoplasmic volume are shown to be sufficient to modulate the size of the spindle.
authors: Departments of Cell and Tissue Biology and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. Electronic address: sophie.dumont@ucsf.edu.
authors: Sophie
authors: S
authors: Dumont
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000502:physiology*; D047108:Embryonic Development; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008941:Spindle Apparatus / Q000502:physiology*