Premium
Meiosis: Inducing Variation by Reduction
Author(s) -
Cnudde F.,
Gerats T.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
plant biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.871
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1438-8677
pISSN - 1435-8603
DOI - 10.1055/s-2005-865655
Subject(s) - biology , meiosis , variation (astronomy) , reduction (mathematics) , evolutionary biology , zoology , genetics , gene , physics , astrophysics , geometry , mathematics
A brief introduction is presented with some thought on the origin of meiosis. Subsequently, a sequential overview of the diverse processes that take place during meiosis is provided, with an eye to similarities and differences between the different eukaryotic systems. In the final part, we try to summarize the available core meiotic mutants and make a comprehensive comparison for orthologous genes between fungal, plant, and animal systems.