About the Authors

William D Gilliland

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Stacie E Hughes

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Jeffrey L Cotitta

Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America , Department of Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Satomi Takeo

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Youbin Xiang

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

R. Scott Hawley

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rsh@stowers-institute.org

Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America , Department of Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

WDG, SEH, JLC, and RSH conceived and designed the experiments. WDG, SEH, JLC, and ST performed the experiments. WDG and YX analyzed the data. WDG contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools and wrote the paper. RSH was principal investigator and as such supervised experiments and paper writing. WDG did all paper and figure preparation, antibody generation, fixed imaging, and analysis. SEH, JLC, and ST performed live imaging of prometaphase. YX was first to identify filaments in polo-GFP.