Cisplatin-induced DNA double-strand breaks promote meiotic chromosome synapsis in PRDM9-controlled mouse hybrid sterility

PR domain containing 9 (Prdm9) is specifying hotspots of meiotic recombination but in hybrids between two mouse subspecies Prdm9 controls failure of meiotic chromosome synapsis and hybrid male sterility. We have previously reported that Prdm9-controlled asynapsis and meiotic arrest are conditioned b...

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Main Authors: Liu Wang, Barbora Valiskova, Jiri Forejt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2018-12-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/42511