Pushing and Pulling: Microtubules Mediate Meiotic Pairing and Synapsis | Zendy

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Pushing and Pulling: Microtubules Mediate Meiotic Pairing and Synapsis

Author(s) -

Sue L. Jaspersen,

R. Scott Hawley

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304

H-Index - 776

eISSN - 1097-4172

pISSN - 0092-8674

DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2009.11.013

Subject(s) - synapsis , pairing , biology , meiosis , caenorhabditis elegans , homologous chromosome , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , synaptonemal complex , microtubule , gene , physics , superconductivity , quantum mechanics

Meiotic pairing in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is facilitated by chromosomal sites known as pairing centers that are tethered to the nuclear envelope. Sato et al. (2009) and Penkner et al. (2009) provide insight into how proteins linking pairing centers and the microtubule cytoskeleton mediate homolog pairing and restrict synapsis to homologous pairs of chromosomes.

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