«Our findings should facilitate the use of
animal haploid cells, making them accessible to a broader range of laboratories and technologies,» the authors conclude.
Not exact matches
Asexual whiptails have a special trick for making spermless reproduction work: The egg
cells in other
animals first double their choromosomes once and then divide twice, leaving them as
haploid cells, with half the normal number of genetic material.
«A way to stabilize haploidy in
animal cells: Mammalian
haploid cells present problems during mitosis that limit their viability; the removal of the p53 tumor suppressor gene increases the survival rate of these
cells thereby stabilising their
haploid state.»