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SUBMITTER: Gu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4425460 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Current biology : CB 20150409 9
Strategies to position the division apparatus exhibit a bewildering diversity [1], but how these mechanisms evolve remains virtually unknown. Here, we explore the plasticity of division site positioning in fission yeasts Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Schizosaccharomyces japonicus. We demonstrate that, whereas both species divide in the middle, only S. pombe uses the anillin Mid1 as a primary nucleus-derived cue to assemble the actomyosin ring at the equatorial cortex. We trace this variance to t ...[more]