Recombination and Meiosis Crossing-Over and Disjunction /

• 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, 2
• 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, reshuffling the homologous chromosomes by their centromeres, and recombining chromosome arms by crossing-over. In animals, including humans, all th...

Table of Contents:

• Meiotic Crossing-Over and Disjunction: Overt and Hidden Layers of Description and Control
• Chromatid Cores in Meiotic Chromosome Structure and Segregation
• Sister Chromatid Cohesion and Centromere Organization in Meiosis
• Spo11 and the Formation of DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Meiosis
• Synapsis, Double-Strand Breaks, and Domains of Crossover Control in Drosophila Females
• Synaptic and Recombination Nodules in Mammals: Structural Continuity with Shifting Protein Composition
• Human Recombination Hotspots: Before and After the HapMap Project
• Meiotic Nondisjunction—The Major Cause of Trisomy 21
• Meiosis in Arabidopis thaliana: Recombination, Chromosome Organization and Meiotic Progression
• Modified Cell Cycle Regulation in Meiosis.