A research team at the IPK Leibniz Institute has developed a method that enables the detailed observation of female ...

During sexual reproduction, haploid gametes (i.e. eggs and sperm) are generated from diploid precursors through the specialized cell division of meiosis. Meiosis reduces ploidy by following one round ...

Meiotic recombination assures genetic variation during breeding. During meiotic prophase I, chromosomes are organized in a loop-base array by a proteinaceous structure called meiotic chromosome axis ...

The centromere of chromosomes plays a crucial role in cell division. Using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, an international team of researchers has investigated how two crucial proteins -- KNL2 ...

Kyoto, Japan -- Sometimes, the number needs to be just right. Meiotic cell division --a fundamental process involved in sexual reproduction -- not only requires the proper protein to break chromosomes ...

The two proteins KNL2 and CENP-C are crucial for the correct separation of chromosomes during cell division. To dock to the centromere, the newly described additional binding regions (DNA-b) to the ...