Maize meiotic spindles assemble around chromatin and do not require paired chromosomes.

doi:10.1242/jcs.111.23.3507

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Maize meiotic spindles assemble around chromatin and do not require paired chromosomes.

Journal of cell science - 1 Dec 1998

Chan A, Cande W Z

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To understand how the meiotic spindle is formed and maintained in higher plants, we studied the organization of microtubule arrays in wild-type maize meiocytes and three maize meiotic mutants, desynaptic1 (dsy1), desynaptic2 (dsy2), and absence of first division (afd). All three meiotic mutations...

Topics

Chromatin
Chromosomes
Genes, Plant
Meiosis
Microscopy, Confocal
Mutation
Zea mays

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