| Range |
~13 Rounds of nuclear division
|
| Organism |
Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster |
| Reference |
David O Morgan, The cell cycle, principles of control, New science press limited 2007 p.7 top paragraph |
| Comments |
"The remarkably rapid cell cycles of these embryos (about 8 minutes each) occur without cytokinesis, resulting in the formation of a multinucleate cell, or syncytium, with thousands of nuclei in a shared cytoplasm. Only after about 13 rounds of nuclear division does a plasma membrane form around each nucleus, resulting in the division of the syncytial cytoplasm into individual cells." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
108578 |