Yoshinori Watanabe is at the Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, SORST, Japan Science Technology Corporation, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
ywatanab@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
A distinguishing feature of meiosis is a reductional division where homologous chromosomes — rather than sister chromatids — are pulled to opposite poles. Polo-like kinase (Plk), a prominent regulator of mitotic progression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is also crucial in regulating chromosome and chromatid separation during meiosis.
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