spindle

id: GO:0005819
name: spindle
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The array of microtubules and associated molecules that forms between opposite poles of a eukaryotic cell during mitosis or meiosis and serves to move the duplicated chromosomes apart.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0072686mitotic spindle
GO:0072687meiotic spindle

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0043232intracellular non-membrane-bounded organelle
GO:0044430cytoskeletal part