Recombination and Meiosis Models, Means, and Evolution /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Egel, Richard (Editor), Lankenau, Dirk-Henner (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Genome Dynamics and Stability, 3
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Human genetics.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Plant genetics.; Animal genetics.; Life Sciences.; Cell Biology.; Biochemistry, general.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Human Genetics.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.

Once per life cycle, mitotic nuclear divisions are replaced by meiosis I and II—reducing chromosome number from the diploid level to a haploid genome and recombining chromosome arms by crossing-over. In animals, all this happens during formation of eggs and sperm—in yeasts before spore formation. Th...

Table of Contents:

• Evolution of Models of Homologous Recombination
• Searching for Homology by Filaments of RecA-Like Proteins
• Biochemistry of Meiotic Recombination: Formation, Processing, and Resolution of Recombination Intermediates
• Meiotic Chromatin: The Substrate for Recombination Initiation
• Meiotic Recombination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe: A Paradigm for Genetic and Molecular Analysis
• Nuclear Movement Enforcing Chromosome Alignment in Fission Yeast—Meiosis Without Homolog Synapsis
• On the Origin of Meiosis in Eukaryotic Evolution: Coevolution of Meiosis and Mitosis from Feeble Beginnings
• The Legacy of the Germ Line – Maintaining Sex and Life in Metazoans: Cognitive Roots of the Concept of Hierarchical Selection
• Lessons to Learn from Ancient Asexuals.