scholarly journals Chromosome pairing and synaptonemal complex formation in hexaploid wheat, monosomic for chromosome 5B

1988 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preben Bach Holm
Genome ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 901-907 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. Gillies ◽  
A. J. Lukaszewski

Zygotene–pachytene nuclei from a rye line heterozygous for most terminal C-bands were found by electron microscopic spreading analysis to have unequal lateral elements at most synaptonemal complex telomeres. An unpaired lateral element protruded beyond the end of the synaptonemal complex at each such telomere. Another rye line with only one C-band heterozygous telomere had only one uneven synaptonemal complex telomere. The length differences between paired lateral elements in heterozygotes (both total complement and individual synaptonemal complexes) was considerably less than the difference in DNA content or somatic metaphase chromosome size between C-band positive and C-band negative lines. There was no evidence of a synaptic adjustment effect reducing the telomere length differences in later pachytene–diplotene stage nuclei. Heterozygosity for the 1RL terminal C-band resulted in a slight reduction in chiasma frequency in that arm but no shift in chiasma position.Key words: rye, C-bands, telomeres, chromosome pairing, synaptonemal complex.


2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (23-24) ◽  
pp. 1605-1618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojing Mu ◽  
Hajime Murakami ◽  
Neeman Mohibullah ◽  
Scott Keeney

2008 ◽  
Vol 66 (7) ◽  
pp. 1198-1208 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Hernández-Hernández ◽  
G. H. Vázquez-Nin ◽  
O. M. Echeverría ◽  
F. Recillas-Targa

Genetics ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-79
Author(s):  
John W Day ◽  
Rhoda F Grell

ABSTRACT Well-synchronized populations of oocytes obtained by means of the "pupal system" (Grell, 1973a) have been examined to determine the time of appearance of the synaptonemal complex. The complex first appears in the most advanced oocytes between 132 and 138 hr of female development. Between 138 and 156 hr the complex apparently undergoes a fourfold increase in length. At 150 and 156 hr the complex system is extensive and present in virtually all oocytes. Previous studies using the pupal system have placed the period of premeiotic DNA synthesis between 132 and 162 hr. Thus, indirect evidence indicates that a significant portion of synaptonemal complex formation is coextensive with the main DNA replication in the oocyte. Direct evidence that DNA synthesis and complex formation occur simultaneously in oocytes has been obtained by electron microscope autoradiography. By definition, then, the stage of synaptonemal complex formation in Drosophila must include premeiotic interphase.


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