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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

Programmed meiotic errors facilitate dichotomous sperm production in the silkworm,

L Benner, M Richmond, Y Xiang, L S Lee, T Li, Z Yu, D Tsuchiya, S Huang, C Hockens, E C Tromer and 2 more

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12 authors.

L BennerUnit on Chromosome Dynamics, Division of Development Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20982, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3716-4522
M RichmondStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, USA.
Y XiangStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, USA.
L S LeeUnit on Chromosome Dynamics, Division of Development Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20982, USA.
T LiMolecular Genomics Core, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20982 USA.
Z YuStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, USA.
D TsuchiyaStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, USA.
S HuangStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, USA.
C HockensUnit on Chromosome Dynamics, Division of Development Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20982, USA.
E C TromerCell Biochemistry, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences & Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Linneausborg, Nijenborgh 7, 9747AG Groningen, the Netherlands.
R S HawleyStowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, 64110, USA.
L F RosinUnit on Chromosome Dynamics, Division of Development Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20982, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2489-4016

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Abstract

The goal of meiosis is typically to produce haploid gametes (eggs or sperm). Failure to do so is catastrophic for fertility and offspring health. However, Lepidopteran (moths and butterflies) males produce two morphs of sperm: nucleated (eupyrene) sperm which fertilize the egg, and anucleated (apyrene) sperm, both of which are essential for fertilization. The meiotic differences in the two types of spermatogenesis have not been well characterized, and our knowledge of the molecular differences between eupyrene and apyrene spermatogenesis are extremely limited in all systems. The only factor identified as being required for apyrene spermatogenesis is

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apyrenechromosome segregationeupyreneholocentricmeiosisRNA-seqsilkwormSpermatogenesistranscription

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