Bütschli, Schneider and Fol might have also claimed the discovery of the process presently known as "mitosis".Ross, Anna E. "Human Anatomy & Physiology I: A Chronology of the Description of Mitosis". Christian Brothers University. Retrieved 02 May 2018. link . In 1873, the German zoologist Otto Bütschli published data from observations on nematodes. A few years later, he discovered and described mitosis based on those observations.Bütschli, O. (1873). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der freilebenden Nematoden. Nova Acta der Kaiserlich Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher 36, 1-144. link .Bütschli, O. (1876). Studien über die ersten Entwicklungsvorgänge der Eizelle, die Zelleilung und die Conjugation der Infusorien. Abh.d. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. Frankfurt a. M. 10, 213-452. link .
Bütschli, Schneider and Fol might have also claimed the discovery of the process presently known as "mitosis".Ross, Anna E. "Human Anatomy & Physiology I: A Chronology of the Description of Mitosis". Christian Brothers University. Retrieved 02 May 2018. link . In 1873, the German zoologist Otto Bütschli published data from observations on nematodes. A few years later, he discovered and described mitosis based on those observations.Bütschli, O. (1873). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der freilebenden Nematoden. Nova Acta der Kaiserlich Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher 36, 1-144. link .Bütschli, O. (1876). Studien über die ersten Entwicklungsvorgänge der Eizelle, die Zelleilung und die Conjugation der Infusorien. Abh.d. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges. Frankfurt a. M. 10, 213-452. link 