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Merotelic Kinetochore Orientation
 Aurora A kinase contributes to a pole-based error correction pathway.
       Ye A.A., Deretic J., Hoel C.M., Hinman A.W., Cimini D., WelburnJ.P., and MarescaT.J. (2015)
       Curr. Biol., 25: 1842-1851.

 The mitotic origin of chromosomal instability.
       Bakhoum S.F., Silkworth W.T., Nardi I.K., Nicholson J.M., Compton D.A., and Cimini D. (2014)
       Curr. Biol., 24: R148-149.

 Multipolar spindle pole coalescence is a major source of kinetochore mis-attachment
       and chromosome mis-segregation in cancer cells.

       Silkworth W.T., Nardi I., Scholl L.M., and Cimini D. (2009).
       PloS ONE, 4(8): e6564.

 Kinetochore microtubule dynamics and attachment stability are regulated by Hec1.
       DeLuca J.G., Gall W.E., Ciferri C., Cimini D., Musacchio A., and Salmon E.D. (2006).
       Cell, 127: 969-982.
       [Cited in Faculty of 1000]

 Aurora kinase promotes turnover of kinetochore microtubules to reduce chromosome segregation errors
       due to merotelic kinetochore orientation.

       Cimini D., Wan X., Hirel C.B., and Salmon E.D. (2006).
       Curr. Biol., 16: 1711-1718.
       [Highlighted in a Dispatch by Zhang and Walczak in Curr. Biol., 16: r677-r678]

 Anaphase spindle mechanics prevent mis-segregation of merotelically oriented chromosomes.
       Cimini D., Cameron L.A., and Salmon E.D. (2004).
       Curr. Biol., 14: 2149-2155.
       [Dispatch by Tarun M. Kapoor in Curr. Biol., 14: R1011-R1013; Research Roundup article by William A. Wells
       in J. Cell Biol., 168: 10; Cited in Faculty of 1000]

 Merotelic kinetochore orientation occurs frequently during early mitosis in mammalian tissue cells,
       and error correction is achieved by two different mechanisms.

       Cimini D., Moree B., Canman J.C., and Salmon E.D. (2003).
       J. Cell Sci., 116: 4213-4225.
       [Cited in Faculty of 1000]

 Merotelic kinetochore orientation versus chromosome mono-orientation in the origin of lagging chromosomes
       in human primary cells.

       Cimini D., Fioravanti D., Salmon E.D., Degrassi F. (2002).
       J. Cell Sci., 115 (3): 507-515.

 Merotelic kinetochore orientation is a major mechanism of aneuploidy in mitotic mammalian tissue cells.
       Cimini D., Howell B.J., Maddox P., Khodjakov A., Degrassi F., and Salmon E.D. (2001).
       Journal of Cell Biology, 153: 517-527.
       [Cover Article: Highlighted in "In Brief" by William A. Wells on the same issue of the Journal of Cell Biology]