Now Thorpe, Bruno and Rothstein find that four kinetochore components (Ndc10, Ctf19, Mtw1 and Ask1) are indeed segregated asymmetrically in postmeiotic budding yeast (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.

Fission yeast and budding yeast are free-living haploid cells that are easily grown in the laboratory. They have different cell shapes and patterns of division. Left, fission yeast; right ...