Movie 6

Simulation of rotation of a long (1.5 axial ratio) spindle with flattened poles and long astral microtubules. This spindle has the axial ratio of the shortest mei-2(ct98) spindles that rotate partially to a diagonal angle relative to the cortex but with poles shaped like those of a control spindle. This shape is also similar to that of knl-1,3(kd) spindles that partially rotate or fail to rotate. Astral microtubules are long due to a polymerization rate of 0.18 μm/s.