Covert Prepatterning of a Cell Division Wave.
A directional wave of mitosis, progressing posterior to anterior across the epidermis, is important for neural tube closure in the invertebrate chordate Ciona intestinalis. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Ogura and Sasakura (2016) show that the patterning of this wave unexpectedly has complex origins in the previous cell cycle.
Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA. Electronic address: veeman@ksu.edu.
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D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002938:Ciona intestinalis / Q000378:metabolism*; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D008938:Mitosis