Dinokaryon

A dinokaryon is a eukaryotic nucleus present in dinoflagellates in which the chromosomes are fibrillar in appearance (i.e. with unmasked DNA fibrils) and are more or less continuously condensed.

Nucleus with a dark nucleolus. The cell usually measures between 20 and 30 micrometers.

The nuclear envelope does not break down during mitosis, which is thus termed closed mitosis, or "dinomitosis".[1] The mitotic spindle is extranuclear.[2]

Histones are absent.[3] However, recent EST sequencing has revealed the presence of histones in one of the closest relative to dinoflagellates, Perkinsus marinus and an early-branching dinoflagellate, Hematodinium sp.[4] However, histone-like proteins of bacterial origins are found in the coding regions at periphery of the dinokaryon's chromosomes.[5]

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  3. ^ FENSOME R.A., TAYLOR F.J.R., NORRIS G., SARJEANT W.A.S., WHARTON D.I. & WILLIAMS G.L. 1993. A classification of living and fossil dinoflagellates. American Museum of Natural History, Micropaleontology, Special Publication 7: 1-351.
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  5. ^ Gavelis, Gregory S.; Herranz, Maria; Wakeman, Kevin C.; Ripken, Christina; Mitarai, Satoshi; Gile, Gillian H.; Keeling, Patrick J.; Leander, Brian S. (2019-01-29). "Dinoflagellate nucleus contains an extensive endomembrane network, the nuclear net". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 839. Bibcode:2019NatSR...9..839G. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-37065-w. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 6351617. PMID 30696854.