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The central element protein ZEP1 of the synaptonemal complex regulates the number of crossovers during meiosis in rice.
The Plant cell - 1 Feb 2010
Wang Mo, Wang Kejian, Tang Ding, Wei Cunxu, Li Ming, Shen Yi, Chi Zhengchang, Gu Minghong, Cheng Zhukuan
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ZEP1, a transverse filament (TF) protein, is the rice (Oryza sativa) homolog of Arabidopsis thaliana ZYP1. In the Tos17-insertional zep1 mutants, homologous chromosomes align along the entire length of the chromosome, but the synaptonemal complex is not assembled in early prophase I. Crossovers are well formed, and 12 bivalents could be detected from diakinesis to metaphase I, which leads to equal chromosomal...
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