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SUBMITTER: Kashevsky H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC123236 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20020808 17
Animals and plants use modified cell cycles to achieve particular developmental strategies. In one common example, most animals and plants have tissues in which the cells become polyploid or polytene by means of an S-G cycle, but the mechanism by which mitosis is inhibited in the endo cycle is not understood. The Drosophila morula (mr) gene regulates variant cell cycles, because in addition to disrupting the archetypal cycle (G1-S-G2-M), mr mutations affect the rapid embryonic (S-M) divisions as ...[more]