A high incidence of meiotic silencing of unsynapsed chromatin is not associated with substantial pachytene loss in heterozygous male mice carrying multiple simple robertsonian translocations.

Meiosis is a complex type of cell division that involves homologous chromosome pairing, synapsis, recombination, and segregation. When any of these processes is altered, cellular checkpoints arrest meiosis progression and induce cell elimination. Meiotic impairment is particularly frequent in organi...

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Main Authors: Marcia Manterola, Jesús Page, Chiara Vasco, Soledad Berríos, María Teresa Parra, Alberto Viera, Julio S Rufas, Maurizio Zuccotti, Silvia Garagna, Raúl Fernández-Donoso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-08-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2726437?pdf=render