A High-Resolution Shape Fitting and Simulation Demonstrated Equatorial Cell Surface Softening during Cytokinesis and Its Promotive Role in Cytokinesis

• Hiroshi Koyama,

  Current address: Division of Embryology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Higashiyama 5-1, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan

  Affiliations Cell Architecture Laboratory, Center for Frontier Research, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan, Transdiciplinary Research Integration Center, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tamiki Umeda,

  Affiliation Graduate School of Maritime Sciences, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

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• Kazuyuki Nakamura,

  Affiliation Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan

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• Tomoyuki Higuchi,

  Affiliations Transdiciplinary Research Integration Center, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Tokyo, Japan, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan

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• Akatsuki Kimura

  * E-mail: akkimura@lab.nig.ac.jp

  Affiliations Cell Architecture Laboratory, Center for Frontier Research, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan, Transdiciplinary Research Integration Center, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Tokyo, Japan

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