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Excess crossovers impede faithful meiotic chromosome segregation in C. elegans

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Published in 2020 at "PLoS Genetics"

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009001

Abstract: During meiosis, diploid organisms reduce their chromosome number by half to generate haploid gametes. This process depends on the repair of double strand DNA breaks as crossover recombination events between homologous chromosomes, which hold homologs… read more here.

Keywords: meiotic chromosome; excess crossovers; interfering crossovers; chromosome segregation ... See more keywords