Meiosis
By: volume editors, Ricardo Benavente, Jean-Nicolas Volff.
Contributors: Benavente, Ricardo.; Volff, Jean-Nicolas.
Series: Genome dynamics -- v. 5
Publisher: Karger
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basel; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9783805589673
Subjects: Meiosis; Meiosis
Description: "Meiosis is a key event in the life of all sexually reproductive organisms. As a consequence of recombination and segregation of maternal and paternal sets of chromosomes, it represents the largest natural source of genetic variability. The field of meiosis research is expanding rapidly, with significant progress resulting from the use of suitable model systems as well as from the identification and characterization of proteins, many of them meiosis-specific, which play a key role during meiotic events. This volume provides the reader with a series of authoritative review articles summarizing some of the most recent advances in the field of meiosis research. Most of the more commonly used model systems are investigated taking the comparative aspects into account. Written by leading experts in the field, the book is a valuable reference for researchers and graduate students in genetics, cell and developmental biology, reproductive biology and andrology."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The meiotic recombination hotspots of Schizosaccharomyces pombe / D.W. Pryce, R.J. McFarlane; title: Meiotic recombination and crossovers in plants / A. De Muyt ... [et al.]; title: Meiosis in cereal crops : the grasses are back / E. Martinez-Perez; title: Homologue pairing, recombination, and segregation in Caenorhabditis elegans / M. Zetka; title: Homolog pairing and segregation in Drosophila meiosis / B.D. McKee; title: The mammalian synaptonemal complex : a scaffold and beyond / F. Yang, P.J. Wang; title: The dance floor of meiosis : evolutionary conservation of nuclear envelope attachment and dynamics of meiotic telomeres / M. Alsheimer; title: Cohesin complexes and sister chromatid cohesion in mammalian meiosis / J.A. Suja, J.L. Barbero; title: Variation in patterns of human meiotic recombination / P.P. Khil, R.D. Camerini-Otero; title: Maternal origin of the human aneuploidies are homolog : synapsis and recombination to blame? notes (learned) from the underbelly / R. Garcia-Cruz, I. Roig, M. Garcia Caldes; title: Inverted meiosis : the true bugs as a model to study / A. Viera, J. Page, J.S. Rufas.