Fig. 10. (A) Plot of pole-to-pole distances (open circles) and of distances from the
poles of sex-chromosome kinetochores (open and closed triangles, representing
partner kinetochores) as a function of autosomal interkinetochore distance
(abscissa), for which we used average distances as described in
Fig. 9. The lines represent our
interpretation: that the poles elongate early in anaphase but not later, and
that the sex chromosomes do not move polewards (they remain a constant
distance from the poles). (B) The same set of cells, with open circles
representing pole-to-pole distances and crosses representing the average
distances of the autosomal kinetochores from the spindle poles in these same
cells. The lines indicate our interpretation: that autosomal separation during
early anaphase is due to spindle elongation and separation later in anaphase
is due to movement towards the pole.