MNM and SNM maintain but do not establish achiasmate homolog conjunction during Drosophila male meiosis.

The first meiotic division reduces genome ploidy. This requires pairing of homologous chromosomes into bivalents that can be bi-oriented within the spindle during prometaphase I. Thereafter, pairing is abolished during late metaphase I, and univalents are segregated apart onto opposite spindle poles...

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Main Authors: Michael Shoujie Sun, Joe Weber, Ariane C Blattner, Soumya Chaurasia, Christian F Lehner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-05-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008162