THE nucleolus was first figured in 1781 as a spot in the centre of a round or oval body (the nucleus) in epithelial cells of the eel. Since then it has been described in the nuclei of almost every ...

The size of a cell's nucleolus may reveal how long that cell, or even the organism it belongs to, will live. Over the past few years, researchers have been piecing together an unexpected link between ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The nucleus and nucleolus have been examined by phase contrast microscopy of isolated fixed nuclei from synchronously dividing cells of ...

The endopolyploid nuclei in the endosperm of Zea mays (8 inbred lines and 5 hybrids, 2 + 1 were investigated intensively) throughout contain strands of chromatin, which are composed of endochromosomes ...