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Mitosis in a flattened endosperm cell of blood lily (7.6 MB file)

Mitosis in a newt lung cell (4.6 MB)

Another movie of mitosis in newt lung cell -- the spindle is visible in this one (2.7 MB)

The movies above were originally published in:

VIDEO ESSAY: Shinya Inoué, and Rudolf Oldenbourg. (1998) Microtubule Dynamics in Mitotic Spindle Displayed by Polarized Light Microscopy. Molecular Biology of the Cell. Vol. 9, Issue 7, 1603-1607.

Yet another mitosis movie -- organism unknown; this is a clip that was shown in class. Disregard the audio narrative -- it talks about separation of "paired chromosomes", which is clearly wrong as this is mitosis, not meiosis (9.6 MB)

A rare movie of meiosis -- organism unknown. There are some movements that may be the result of rotation of the cell on the microscope slide; there is also some ghosting of the image as though some frames in the movie had been merged (11.8 MB)