spindle organization

Term ID

GO:0007051

Synonyms

• spindle organisation
• spindle organization and biogenesis
• spindle stabilization

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.

References

Ontology

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