Term Name: spindle organization
Synonyms: spindle organisation, spindle organization and biogenesis
Definition: A process that is carried out at the cellular level which results in the assembly, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of the spindle, the array of microtubules and associated molecules that forms between opposite poles of a eukaryotic cell during DNA segregation and serves to move the duplicated chromosomes apart.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0007051]   QuickGO   AmiGO

Relationships (about)
has parts: microtubule anchoring at spindle pole body spindle elongation
is a type of: cell cycle process microtubule cytoskeleton organization protein complex subunit organization
has subtype: astral microtubule organization meiotic spindle organization mitotic spindle organization spindle assembly spindle disassembly
regulated by: regulation of spindle organization