ON THE BACK COVER: Spindle assembled around sperm chromosomes in Xenopus egg extracts in the presence of a mutant TPX2 protein (X. laevis) that enhances microtubule nucleation, leading to disruption of spindle poles and the formation of ectopic microtubule asters. Microtubules are labeled in red, DNA in blue, and TPX2 is green.
Credit: Guadalupe Sepulveda, Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA.