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Nature Cell Biology 6, 573–575 (1 July 2004) | doi:10.1038/ncb0704-573

Uncoiling centriole duplication

Bruce Nash & Bruce Bowerman

In the same way as genetic material in chromosomes, centrosomes must undergo duplication once and only once before each cell division. Moreover, similarly to the pairs of sister chromosomes produced after duplication of the genome, duplicated centrioles are segregated equally to each daughter cell during mitosis.