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γ‐Tubulin and microtubule organization during meiosis in the liverwort Ricciocarpus natans (Ricciaceae)
Author(s) -
Brown R. C.,
Lemmon B. E.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
american journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.218
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1537-2197
pISSN - 0002-9122
DOI - 10.3732/ajb.2007388
Subject(s) - biology , phragmoplast , telophase , microtubule organizing center , meiosis , cytokinesis , spindle pole body , microtubule , prometaphase , cell plate , microbiology and biotechnology , prophase , meiosis ii , metaphase , spindle apparatus , cell division , genetics , centrosome , chromosome , cell cycle , cell , gene
Extant liverworts are “living fossils” considered sister to all other plants and as such provide clues to the evolution of the microtubule organizing center (MTOC) in anastral cells. This report is the first on microtubule arrays and their γ‐tubulin‐nucleating sites during meiosis in a member of the Ricciales, a specialized, species‐rich group of complex thalloid (marchantioid) liverworts. In meiotic prophase, γ‐tubulin becomes concentrated at several sites adjacent to the nuclear envelope. Microtubules organized at these foci give rise to a multipolar prometaphase spindle. By metaphase I, the spindle has matured into a bipolar structure with truncated poles. In both first and second meiosis, γ‐tubulin forms box‐like caps at the spindle poles. γ‐Tubulin moves from spindle poles to the proximal surfaces of telophase chromosomes where interzonal microtubules are nucleated. Although a phragmoplast is organized, no cell plate is deposited, and second division occurs simultaneously in the undivided sporocyte. γ‐Tubulin surrounds each of the tetrad nuclei, and phragmoplasts initiated between both sister and nonsister nuclei direct simultaneous cytokinesis. The overall pattern of meiosis (unlobed polyplastidic sporocytes, nuclear envelope MTOC, multipolar spindle origin, spindles with box‐like poles, and simultaneous cytokinesis) more closely resembles that of Conocephalum than other marchantiod liverworts.

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