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Nature Genetics 40, 266 - 267 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ng0308-266

Division of labor among meiotic genes

Luke E Berchowitz1 & Gregory P Copenhaver1

  1. Luke E. Berchowitz and Gregory P. Copenhaver are at the Department of Biology and the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA.
    e-mail: gcopenhaver@bio.unc.edu


During meiosis, crossovers are regulated such that each pair of chromosomes has at least one crossover and multiple crossovers are evenly spaced. A new study leads to surprising insights regarding the timing of crossover regulation through the analysis of two genes involved in synaptonemal complex elongation.

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