Arrested crossover precursor structures form stable homologous bonds in a Tetrahymena meiotic mutant.

Meiotic DNA double-strand breaks produce reciprocally exchanged DNA strands, which mature into chiasmata that hold homologous chromosomes together as bivalents. These bivalents are subsequently separated in the first meiotic division. In a mutant lacking the newly identified Tetrahymena gene APRO1 (...

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Main Authors: Miao Tian, Kazufumi Mochizuki, Josef Loidl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263691&type=printable
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