Multiciliated cells (MCCs) have several hair-like structures called cilia, which are required to propel substances on their surface.A cilium is organized from a basal body which resembles a hollow microtubule structure called a centriole.In terminally differentiated MCCs, hundreds of new basal bodies/centrioles are formed via two parallel pathways:
Abstract Background To understand which reproductive barriers initiate speciation is a major question in evolutionary research.Despite their high species numbers and specific biology, there are only few studies on speciation in Hymenoptera.This study aims to identify very early reproductive barriers in a local, sympatric population of Nasonia vitri
Theoretical and experimental approaches have been applied to study the polymer physics underlying the compaction of DNA in the bacterial nucleoid.Knowledge of the compaction mechanism is necessary to obtain a mechanistic understanding of the segregation process of replicating chromosome arms (replichores) during the cell cycle.The first part of thi