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  1. University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

    Shinya Inoué &  Andrew Bajer

  2. Department of Cytology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

    Shinya Inoué

  3. Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Jagellonian University, 53 Grodzka, Cracow, Poland

    Andrew Bajer

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This paper is dedicated to Professor Franz Schrader on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.

This research was supported in part by USPH grant C-3002 awarded to Shinya Inoué and by the Rockefeller Foundation travel grant GA BMR 5865 awarded to Andrew Bajer.

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Inoué, S., Bajer, A. Birefringence in endosperm mitosis. Chromosoma 12, 48–63 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00328913

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