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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

The synaptonemal complex imposes crossover interference and heterochiasmy in

Laia Capilla-Pérez, Stéphanie Durand, Aurélie Hurel, Qichao Lian, Aurélie Chambon, Christelle Taochy, Victor Solier, Mathilde Grelon, Raphael Mercier

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 125 papers.

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125citing papers in PubMed
15.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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125 citing papers in PubMed, 222 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Laia Capilla-PérezDepartment of Chromosome Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3374-3057
Stéphanie DurandDepartment of Chromosome Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne, Germany.
Aurélie HurelInstitut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000 Versailles, France.ORCID 0000-0002-6416-4392
Qichao LianDepartment of Chromosome Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0737-8332
Aurélie ChambonInstitut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000 Versailles, France.
Christelle TaochyInstitut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000 Versailles, France.ORCID 0000-0001-9163-4735
Victor SolierDepartment of Chromosome Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1528-7174
Mathilde GrelonInstitut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000 Versailles, France.ORCID 0000-0003-3695-4984
Raphael MercierDepartment of Chromosome Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 50829 Cologne, Germany; mercier@mpipz.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0001-6508-6608
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research · DEAgroParisTech · FR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Meiotic crossovers (COs) have intriguing patterning properties, including CO interference, the tendency of COs to be well-spaced along chromosomes, and heterochiasmy, the marked difference in male and female CO rates. During meiosis, transverse filaments transiently associate the axes of homologous chromosomes, a process called synapsis that is essential for CO formation in many eukaryotes. Here, we describe the spatial organization of the transverse filaments in

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Crossing Over, GeneticArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsBiomarkersChromosomes, PlantCRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingMeiosisMutagenesisSynaptonemal ComplexArabidopsis ProteinsBiomarkersZYP1a protein, Arabidopsiscrossoverheterochiasmyinterferencemeiosissynaptonemal complex

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PMID33723072
PMCPMC8000504
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