Preface ....................................................... vii
The Role of Model Organisms in the History of Mitosis Research .. 1
Mitsuhiro Yanagida
The Biochemistry of Mitosis .................................... 15
Samuel Wieser and Jonathon Pines
Emergent Properties of the Metaphase Spindle ................... 31
Simone Reber and Anthony A. Hyman
Chromosome Dynamics during Mitosis ............................. 53
Tatsuya Hirano
The Centrosome and Its Duplication Cycle ....................... 67
Jingyan Fu, Iain M. Hagan, and David M. Glover
The Centromere: Epigenetic Control of Chromosome Segregation
during Mitosis ................................................ 103
Frederick G. Westhorpe and Aaron F. Straight
The Kinetochore ............................................... 129
Iain M. Cheeseman
Cytokinesis in Animal Cells ................................... 147
Pier Paolo D'Avino, Maria Grazia Giansanti, and Mark
Petronczki
Aurea Mediocritas: The Importance of a Balanced Genome ........ 165
Gianluca Varetti, David Pellman, and David J. Gordon
Meiosis: An Overview of Key Differences from Mitosis .......... 185
Hiroyuki Ohkura
Index ......................................................... 199
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