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A link between meiotic prophase progression and crossover control.
PLoS genetics - 1 Feb 2006
Carlton Peter M, Farruggio Alfonso P, Dernburg Abby F
Abstract excerpt
During meiosis, most organisms ensure that homologous chromosomes undergo at least one exchange of DNA, or crossover, to link chromosomes together and accomplish proper segregation. How each chromosome receives a minimum of one crossover is unknown. During early meiosis in Caenorhabditis elegans and many other species, chromosomes adopt a polarized organization within the nucleus, which normally disappears upon...
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