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A meiotic mystery: How sister kinetochores avoid being pulled in opposite directions during the first division.
Article in BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Hypothesis that ancestral eukaryotes sexually proliferated without kinetochores or mitosis.Journal of cell science · 2025Article
- Meiosis-specific functions of kinetochore protein SPC105R required for chromosome segregation inMolecular biology of the cell · 2024Article
- Meiosis-specific functions of kinetochore protein SPC105R required for chromosome segregation inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- A dynamic population of prophase CENP-C is required for meiotic chromosome segregation.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- Spo13/MEIKIN ensures a Two-Division meiosis by preventing the activation of APC/CThe EMBO journal · 2023Article
- Ectopic expression of meiotic cohesin generates chromosome instability in cancer cell line.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Loss of sister kinetochore co-orientation and peri-centromeric cohesin protection after meiosis I depends on cleavage of centromeric REC8.Developmental cell · 2021Article
- Deprotection of centromeric cohesin at meiosis II requires APC/C activity but not kinetochore tension.The EMBO journal · 2021Article
- Meiosis Progression and Recombination in Holocentric Plants: What Is Known?Frontiers in plant science · 2021Review
- Crossover Interference, Crossover Maturation, and Human Aneuploidy.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2019Review
- Asexual thalli originated from sporophytic thalli via apomeiosis in the green seaweed Ulva.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Sister centromere fusion during meiosis I depends on maintaining cohesins and destabilizing microtubule attachments.PLoS genetics · 2019Article
- Mysteries in embryonic development: How can errors arise so frequently at the beginning of mammalian life?PLoS biology · 2019Article
- APC/C-Cdc20 mediates deprotection of centromeric cohesin at meiosis II in yeast.Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) · 2017Article
- Lateral and End-On Kinetochore Attachments Are Coordinated to Achieve Bi-orientation in Drosophila Oocytes.PLoS genetics · 2015Article
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Abstract
We now take for granted that despite the disproportionate contribution of females to initial growth of their progeny, there is little or no asymmetry in the contribution of males and females to the eventual character of their shared offspring. In fact, this key insight was only established towards the end of the eighteenth century by Joseph Koelreuter's pioneering plant breeding experiments. If males and females supply equal amounts of hereditary material, then the latter must double each time an embryo is conceived. How then does the amount of this mysterious stuff not multiply exponentially from generation to generation? A compensatory mechanism for diluting the hereditary material must exist, one that ensures that if each parent contributes one half, each grandparent contributes a quarter, and each great grandparent merely an eighth. An important piece of the puzzle of how hereditary material is diluted at each generation has been elucidated over the past ten years.
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