Tag: meiosis

A study of 399 human embryos from reciprocal translocation carriers shows that terminal breakpoints drive 3:1 segregation and boost blastocyst ...

New research in Science Advances shows that the DREAM complex, long known as a gene-silencing brake in dividing cells, activates ...

A population-wide cytogenetic survey of two Brazilian scorpion species has revealed the lowest chromosome counts ever recorded in the family ...

A cross-species immunocytochemical study of mole voles and mole rats reveals how rare tetraploid spermatocytes form quadrivalents, attempt synaptic adjustment, ...

A new PLOS Pathogens review synthesises the unusual biology of female Cryptosporidium parasites, whose oocyst-building programme underpins transmission of a ...

A CRISPR mutant series in rice reveals that three redundant CDC20 proteins control the metaphase-to-anaphase transition in both mitosis and ...

A cross-species study shows that the width of the mitotic spindle scales with the cube root of genome size because ...

A new review in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences maps how the epigenome of the postnatal male germline balances the ...

A comparative genomics study reveals that naturally cryptorchid mammals maintain fertility through altered sperm morphology, selection on flagellar and meiotic ...

A new cytogenetic study reveals how individual chromosomes in aneuploid Brassica napus pair and segregate during meiosis, explaining why these ...