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2014 Vol. 41, No. 3

Editorial
Meiosis: Recent Progress and New Opportunities
Hong Ma, Howard J. Cooke, Qinghua Shi
2014, 41(3): 83-85. doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2014.01.004
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Review
Reconstitution of Gametogenesis In Vitro: Meiosis Is the Biggest Obstacle
Yuan-Chao Sun, Shun-Feng Cheng, Rui Sun, Yong Zhao, Wei Shen
2014, 41(3): 87-95. doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2013.12.008
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Germ-line cells are responsible for transmitting genetic and epigenetic information across generations, and ensuring the creation of new individuals from one generation to the next. Gametogenesis process requires several rigorous steps, including primordial germ cell (PGC) specification, proliferati...
The Role of Chromatin Modifications in Progression through Mouse Meiotic Prophase
James H. Crichton, Christopher J. Playfoot, Ian R. Adams
2014, 41(3): 97-106. doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2014.01.003
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Meiosis is a key event in gametogenesis that generates new combinations of genetic information and is required to reduce the chromosome content of the gametes. Meiotic chromosomes undergo a number of specialised events during prophase to allow meiotic recombination, homologous chromosome synapsis an...
The Synaptonemal Complex of Basal Metazoan Hydra: More Similarities to Vertebrate than Invertebrate Meiosis Model Organisms
Johanna Fraune, Miriam Wiesner, Ricardo Benavente
2014, 41(3): 107-115. doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2014.01.009
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The synaptonemal complex (SC) is an evolutionarily well-conserved structure that mediates chromosome synapsis during prophase of the first meiotic division. Although its structure is conserved, the characterized protein components in the current metazoan meiosis model systems (Drosophila melanogaste...
Molecular Mechanisms of Homologous Chromosome Pairing and Segregation in Plants
Jing Zhang, Bing Zhang, Handong Su, James A. Birchler, Fangpu Han
2014, 41(3): 117-123. doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2013.12.003
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In most eukaryotic species, three basic steps of pairing, recombination and synapsis occur during prophase of meiosis I. Homologous chromosomal pairing and recombination are essential for accurate segregation of chromosomes. In contrast to the well-studied processes such as recombination and synapsi...
Research article
Ten Years of Gene Discovery for Meiotic Event Control in Rice
Qiong Luo, Yafei Li, Yi Shen, Zhukuan Cheng
2014, 41(3): 125-137. doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2014.02.002
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Meiosis is the crucial process by which sexually propagating eukaryotes give rise to haploid gametes from diploid cells. Several key processes, like homologous chromosomes pairing, synapsis, recombination, and segregation, sequentially take place in meiosis. Although these widely conserved events ar...
Comparative Transcriptomics of Early Meiosis in Arabidopsis and Maize
Stefanie Dukowic-Schulze, Anthony Harris, Junhua Li, Anitha Sundararajan, Joann Mudge, Ernest F. Retzel, Wojciech P. Pawlowski, Changbin Chen
2014, 41(3): 139-152. doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2013.11.007
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Though sexually reproductive plants share the same principle and most processes in meiosis, there are distinct features detectable. To address the similarities and differences of early meiosis transcriptomes from the dicot model system Arabidopsis and monocot model system maize, we performed compara...
Original research
Expression of Epitope-Tagged SYN3 Cohesin Proteins Can Disrupt Meiosis in Arabidopsis
Li Yuan, Xiaohui Yang, Dirk Auman, Christopher A. Makaroff
2014, 41(3): 153-164. doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2013.11.006
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α-kleisins are core components of meiotic and mitotic cohesin complexes. Arabidopsis contains genes encoding four α-kleisins. SYN1, a REC8 ortholog, is essential for meiosis, while SYN2 and SYN4 appear to be SCC1 orthologs and function in mitosis. SYN3 is enriched in the nucleolus of meiotic and mit...
Arabidopsis PTD Is Required for Type I Crossover Formation and Affects Recombination Frequency in Two Different Chromosomal Regions
Pingli Lu, Asela J. Wijeratne, Zhengjia Wang, Gregory P. Copenhaver, Hong Ma
2014, 41(3): 165-175. doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2014.02.001
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In eukaryotes, crossovers together with sister chromatid cohesion maintain physical association between homologous chromosomes, ensuring accurate chromosome segregation during meiosis I and resulting in exchange of genetic information between homologues. The Arabidopsis PTD (Parting Dancers) gene af...
Meiotic Chromosome Behavior in a Human Male t(8;15) Carrier
Hanwei Jiang, Liu Wang, Yingxia Cui, Zhipeng Xu, Tonghang Guo, Dongkai Cheng, Peng Xu, Wen Yu, Qinghua Shi
2014, 41(3): 177-185. doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2014.01.005
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Reciprocal translocation is one of the most common structural chromosomal rearrangements in human beings; it is widely recognized to be associated with male infertility. This association is mainly based on the abnormal chromosome behavior of the translocated chromosomes and sex chromosomes during me...