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The meiotic bouquet promotes homolog interactions and restricts ectopic recombination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Genetics - 1 Sept 2006
Davis Luther, Smith Gerald R
Abstract excerpt
Chromosome architecture undergoes extensive, programmed changes as cells enter meiosis. A highly conserved change is the clustering of telomeres at the nuclear periphery to form the "bouquet" configuration. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe the bouquet and associated nuclear movement facilitate initial interactions between homologs. We show that Bqt2, a meiosis-specific protein required for bouquet...
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