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Biomolecular Concepts, 2014 Meiosis is a unique type of cell division that is performed only by germ cells to form haploid gametes. The switch from mitosis to meiosis exhibits a distinct sex-specific difference in timing, with female germ cells entering meiosis during fetal ...
Jørgensen Anne, Rajpert-De Meyts Ewa
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Anastral spindle assembly and γ-tubulin in
BMC Cell Biology, 2011 Background Anastral spindles assemble by a mechanism that involves microtubule nucleation and growth from chromatin. It is still uncertain whether γ-tubulin, a microtubule nucleator essential for mitotic spindle assembly and maintenance, plays a role ...
Hallen Mark A, Endow Sharyn A
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Haploid meiosis in Arabidopsis: double-strand breaks are formed and repaired but without synapsis and crossovers. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Two hallmark features of meiosis are i) the formation of crossovers (COs) between homologs and ii) the production of genetically-unique haploid spores that will fuse to restore the somatic ploidy level upon fertilization.
Marta Cifuentes +4 more
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Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010 46 pages, 8 figures. v2: minor changes.
Walter Van Herck, Thomas Wyder
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Possible role of human ribonuclease dicer in the regulation of R loops
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.R loops play an important role in regulating key cellular processes such as replication, transcription, centromere stabilization, or control of telomere length. However, the unscheduled accumulation of R loops can cause many diseases, including cancer, and neurodegenerative or inflammatory disorders. Interestingly, accumulating data indicate a possible
Klaudia Wojcik +2 more
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Wellcome Open Research, 2017 Background Gametes are generated through a specialized cell division called meiosis, in which ploidy is reduced by half because two consecutive rounds of chromosome segregation, meiosis I and meiosis II, occur without intervening DNA replication.
Colette Fox +3 more
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Reproduction, 2015 Spermatogenesis is a continuous and productive process supported by the self-renewal and differentiation of spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs), which arise from undifferentiated precursors known as gonocytes and are strictly controlled in a special 'niche'
Su-Ren Chen, Yi-Xun Liu
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Molecular Cell, 2015 Double-strand breaks (DSBs) threaten chromosome integrity. The most accurate repair of DSBs is by homologous recombination (HR), catalyzed by recombination proteins such as Rad51. Three papers in this issue of Molecular Cell (Fasching et al., 2015; Kaur et al., 2015; Tang et al., 2015) now reveal the role of three of these proteins in budding yeast ...
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.In the blood–testis barrier, occludin is crucial for tight junctions. This study demonstrates that occludin‐targeting short peptides disrupt junction integrity, inducing immune cell infiltration, tumor necrosis factor‐α/interleukin‐6 secretion and mitochondrial dysfunction, ultimately triggering apoptosis.
Heng Wang, Xiaofang Tan, Deyu Chen
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Two mechanisms repress cyclin B1 translation to maintain prophase arrest in mouse oocytes
Nature CommunicationsIn mammals, oocytes are arrested in prophase of meiosis I for long periods of time. Prophase arrest is critical for reproduction because it allows oocytes to grow to their full size to support meiotic maturation and embryonic development. Prophase arrest
Shiya Cheng, Melina Schuh
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